buff

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /bʌf/    美 /bʌf/|/bɐf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. countable,uncountable
    — […]; but is in a ſuite of buffe […]
  2. Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”). alt-of,alternative,uncommon
    — For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […]
  3. A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. countable,informal,uncountable
    — […] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]
  4. A strike; a blow. obsolete
    — Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent / That made him reel.
  5. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. countable,uncountable
  6. A brownish yellow colour. countable,uncountable
    — 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203, […] a Visage rough, Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.
  7. A military coat made of buff leather. countable,uncountable
    — A diuell in an euerlaſting garment hath him ; / On whoſe hard heart is button’d vp with ſteele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittileſſe and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay worſe, a fellow all in buffe […]
  8. A person who is very interested in a particular subject. countable,informal,uncountable
    — He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.
  9. A change introduced in a patch that makes a character, item, or attack stronger. countable,uncountable
  10. An effect that makes a character or item stronger. countable,uncountable
    — I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!
  11. Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition. countable,uncountable
  12. The bare skin. colloquial,countable,uncountable
    — to strip to the buff
  13. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. countable,uncountable
  14. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits. countable,uncountable
    — 2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014, Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.
动词 v.
  1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
    — He was already buffing the car's hubs.
  2. To strike.
    — Bravely run Red-hood, / There was a shock, / To have buff’d out the blood / From ought but a block.
  3. To stammer, stutter dialectal,obsolete
  4. To make a character or an item stronger.
    — The enchanter buffed the paladin to prepare him to fight the dragon.
  5. To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
    — "Sure thing, I buffed her, and they turfed her to urology, but she bounced back to me!" [...] They attempted to transfer her to urology by modifying her chart (buffing it) to request urine tests, but the doctors in urology sent (bounced) her back.
  6. To remove (graffiti), particularly when done by someone who is not a graffiti writer. slang
  7. To strip to the bare skin. archaic,slang,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  2. Unusually muscular. colloquial
    — The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.
  3. Physically attractive. Multicultural-London-English,slang
    — That's right: I'm taking driver's ed next semester. Hiring an interpreter for CHS and the deaf school outta my own hefty pockets. You're welcome. Oh, and I'm going to get really skinny and buff. All slim like a swimsuit model.

词形变化

buffs plural buffer comparative more buff comparative buffest superlative most buff superlative buffs present,singular,third-person buffing participle,present buffed participle,past buffed past buffs present,singular,third-person buffing participle,present buffed participle,past buffed past buffs plural buffs present,singular,third-person buffing participle,present buffed participle,past buffed past buffs plural buffs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).
词源 2
From Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).
词源 3
From Middle English buffen (“to stutter, stammer”), from Old English byffan (“to mumble, mutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to fear, to be afraid”). More at bive (“tremble, shake”) and bever.
词源 4
Clipping of buffalo.
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