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Latest revision as of 01:58, 2 June 2013 English[edit] Etymology 1[edit] Borrowing from French. Pronunciation[edit] buffet (plural buffets) - A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
Synonyms[edit] Translations[edit] a counter or sideboard from which food and drink are served or may be bought food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked Etymology 2[edit] Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen, to jostle, to hustle Pronunciation[edit] buffet (plural buffets) - A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII and XIV:
- The still summer air was disturbed by a sound like beer coming out of a bottle. It was Pop Glossop gurgling. His eyes were round, his nose wiggled, and one could readily discern that this news item had come to him not as rare and refreshing fruit but more like a buffet on the base of the skull with a sock full of wet sand. [...] There was silence for some moments, broken only by the sound of an aunt saying "Lord love a duck!" Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
Synonyms[edit] buffet (third-person singular simple present buffets, present participle buffeting, simple past and past participle buffeted) - (transitive) To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.
- (transitive, figuratively) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader's Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, "a personal note") to his party's grass-roots members.
Etymology 3[edit] Old French, of unknown origin. buffet (plural buffets) - A low stool; a hassock.
Etymology[edit] Old French, of uncertain origin. Pronunciation[edit] buffet m (plural buffets) - sideboard, dresser
- (food) buffet
Italian[edit] Etymology[edit] Borrowing from French buffet m (invariable) - sideboard (furniture)
- buffet, refreshment bar
Norwegian[edit] Alternative forms[edit] Etymology[edit] Borrowing from French buffet (m) - sideboard; dining room furniture containing table linen and services
- buffet, refreshment bar
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