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buffhood

buffhood noun: synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).

Noun

buffhood (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).
    • Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories.1973, Scientific American, volume 228, page 43
    • My auto buffhood dates from that moment. For the rest of the week I hung around the fringes of the race crowd like kids used to around Babe Ruth.1961, Esquire, volume 56, numbers 4-6, page 62
    Synonyms:
    buffery

Synonyms of buffhood

Origin of buffhood

From buff + -hood.

Questions about buffhood

What does buffhood mean?
Buffhood means synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).
What part of speech is buffhood?
Buffhood is a noun.

Words near buffhood in the dictionary

  1. buffetted
  2. Buffettian
  3. buffetting
  4. buffettings
  5. Buffham
  6. buffhood
  7. buffi
  8. Buffian
  9. Buffians
  10. buffier
  11. buffiest

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