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bufferdom

bufferdom noun: the state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.

Noun

bufferdom (uncountable)

  1. (UK) The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.
    • Sometime in the late autumn of 1977, I went to a book party that was held in the Rosebery Room of the House of Lords. Why I went I can’t think – the volume was some piece of unreadable bufferdom extruded by Lord Butler […].1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20
    • Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported.2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New Statesman

Origin of bufferdom

From buffer + -dom.

Questions about bufferdom

What does bufferdom mean?
Bufferdom means the state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.
What part of speech is bufferdom?
Bufferdom is a noun.

Words near bufferdom in the dictionary

  1. bufferable
  2. bufferbeam
  3. bufferbeams
  4. bufferbloat
  5. bufferbloats
  6. bufferdom
  7. buffered
  8. buffered up
  9. bufferedness
  10. bufferful
  11. bufferfuls

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