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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUFF'ET, n. A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.
BUFF'ET, n. A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.
BUFF'ET, v.t. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.
They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.
1. To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
BUFF'ET, v.i. To exercise or play at boxing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, counter, sideboard]
2: a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
3: usually inexpensive bar [syn: snack bar, snack counter, buffet] v
1: strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet, knock about, batter]
2: strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" [syn: buffet, buff]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, diminutive of buffe blow Date: 13th century 1. a blow especially with the hand 2. something that strikes with telling force II. verb Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to strike sharply especially with the hand ; cuff 2. to strike repeatedly ; batter <the waves buffeted the shore> 3. to drive, force, move, or attack by or as if by repeated blows intransitive verb to make one's way especially under difficult conditions III. noun Etymology: French Date: 1718 1. sideboard 2. a. a counter for refreshments b. chiefly British a restaurant operated as a public convenience (as in a railway station) c. a meal set out on a buffet or table for ready access and informal service IV. adjective Date: 1898 served informally (as from a buffet)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a room or counter where light meals or snacks may be bought (station buffet). 2 a meal consisting of several dishes set out from which guests serve themselves (buffet lunch). 3 also a sideboard or recessed cupboard for china etc. Phrases and idioms: buffet car Brit. a railway coach serving light meals or snacks. Etymology: F f. OF bufet stool, of unkn. orig. 2. v. & n. --v. (buffeted, buffeting) 1 tr. a strike or knock repeatedly (wind buffeted the trees). b strike, esp. repeatedly, with the hand or fist. 2 tr. (of fate etc.) treat badly; plague (cheerful though buffeted by misfortune). 3 a intr. struggle; fight one's way (through difficulties etc.). b tr. contend with (waves etc.). --n. 1 a blow, esp. of the hand or fist. 2 a shock. Etymology: ME f. OF dimin. of bufe blow

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buffet Buf"fet (b[u^]f"f[e^]t), n. [OE. buffet, boffet, OF. buffet a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr. buffe blow, cf. F. bouffer to blow, puff; prob. akin to E. puff. For the meaning slap, blow, cf. F. soufflet a slap, souffler to blow. See Puff, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon] 1. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. --Sir W. Scott. 2. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. --Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. --Shak. 3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. --Townely Myst.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buffet Buf*fet" (b[oo^]f*f[=a]"), n. [F. buffet, LL. bufetum; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to puff, hence (cf. puffed up) the idea of ostentation or display.] 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. --Pope. 2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buffet Buf"fet, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter. See the preceding noun.] 1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. They spit in his face and buffeted him. --Matt. xxvi. 67. 2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. --Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. --W. Black. 3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Buffet Buf"fet, v. i. 1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. --Shak. 2. To make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. --Tennyson.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(buffeted) 1. A buffet is a meal of cold food that is displayed on a long table at a party or public occasion. Guests usually serve themselves from the table. ...a buffet lunch... N-COUNT: oft N n 2. A buffet is a café, usually in a hotel or station. We sat in the station buffet sipping tea. N-COUNT: oft n N 3. On a train, the buffet or the buffet car is the carriage or car where meals and snacks are sold. (BRIT; in AM, use dining car) N-COUNT: usu sing 4. If something is buffeted by strong winds or by stormy seas, it is repeatedly struck or blown around by them. Their plane had been severely buffeted by storms... Storms swept the country, closing roads, buffeting ferries and killing as many as 30 people. VERB: be V-ed, V n • buffeting (buffetings) ...the buffetings of the winds. N-COUNT 5. If an economy or government is buffeted by difficult or unpleasant situations, it experiences many of them. The whole of Africa had been buffeted by social and political upheavals. VERB: be V-ed

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

buf'-et (kolaphizo, "to beat with the fist"): Refers to bodily maltreatment and violence: "Then did they spit in his face and buffet him" (Mt 26:67; Mr 14:65; 1Co 4:11; 1Pe 2:20). Paul speaks of "a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me" (2Co 12:7). Used figuratively of self-control: "I buffet (the King James Version keep under, the Revised Version, margin "bruise") my body, and bring it into bondage" (1Co 9:27). The Greek in this passage reads hupopiazo, literally "to give a blow beneath the eye." In Lu 18:5 the same word is rendered "wear out": "Lest she wear roe out by her continual coming" (the King James Version "weary me" the Revised Version, margin "bruise me") (see Pape's Lexicon, under the word).

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Slap, box, knock, stroke, rap, blow, cuff. 2. Cupboard, sideboard. 3. Refreshment-counter, luncheon-board. II. v. a. 1. Beat, box, slap, strike, smite, cuff. 2. Struggle against, contend against, resist.

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