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in the buff

in the buff prepositional phrase: nude.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Nude.
    • She was in the buff on the beach.
    • The streaker ran across the playing field in the buff.

in the buff meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

in the buff in Tamil

நிர்வாணமாக, ஆடையின்றி, அம்மணமாக

in the buff in Bengali

উলঙ্গ

in the buff in Malayalam

naked, bare, nude
പിറന്നപടിയായ, നഗ്ന, വിവൃത, നഗ്നമായ, വിവസ്ത്ര, വിവസ്ത്രമായ

Examples of in the buff in a sentence

  • It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.2021 October 18, Ian Lecklitzner, “The Inevitable Rise of the Work-From-Home Nudist”, in MEL Magazine:
  • Primarily because everyone is freaking out about the, er, let’s call them consequences of sharing a saddle with someone who has ridden it in the buff.2026 June 16, “Naked cycling: is it ever acceptable to ride a rental bike in the nude?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Origin of in the buff

From buff (“bare skin”, literally “brownish yellow”), an allusion to the color of tanned light skin.

Questions about in the buff

What does in the buff mean?
In the buff means nude.
What is in the buff in Tamil?
In the buff in Tamil is நிர்வாணமாக, ஆடையின்றி, அம்மணமாக. See In the buff meaning in Tamil.
How do you use in the buff in a sentence?
It also doesn’t hurt that being in the buff spices up his workday.
What part of speech is in the buff?
In the buff is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in the buff in the dictionary

  1. in the black
  2. in the blink of an eye
  3. in the books
  4. in the bottom of the bag
  5. in the bucket
  6. in the buff
  7. in the business of
  8. in the can
  9. in the cards
  10. in the clear
  11. in the closet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: in the buff (page history and authors); in the buff (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the buff (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); in the buff (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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