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Is buff a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word buff is a Scrabble US word. The word buff is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is buff a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word buff is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

BUFF,

3-letter words (1 found)

FUB,

2-letter words (1 found)

FU,

You can make 3 words from buff according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of buff

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Definitions and meaning of buff

buff

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌf/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf

Etymology 1

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

  1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
  2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
  3. A brownish yellow colour.
    • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203,[1]
      […] a Visage rough,
      Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.
  4. A military coat made of buff leather.
  5. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
    Synonyms: enthusiast, aficionado; see also Thesaurus:fan
  6. (video games, roleplaying games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
    Synonym: revamp
    Antonyms: debuff, nerf
  7. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
  9. (colloquial) The bare skin.
  10. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
  11. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
    • 2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014,[5]
      Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.
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Adjective

buff (comparative buffer or more buff, superlative buffest or most buff)

  1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
  2. (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular.
    Synonyms: buffed, buffed out
  3. (MLE slang) Physically attractive.
Derived terms
  • buff-tip moth
  • buffly
  • buffster
Translations

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

  1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
    Synonyms: wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnish
  2. (video games, roleplaying games) To make a character or an item stronger.
    Antonyms: debuff, nerf
  3. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
  4. (graffiti slang) To remove a piece of graffiti by cleaning or removal, especially by a someone who is not a graffiti writer.
Derived terms
  • buff out
  • buff the muffin
  • buff up
  • buff wheel
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See also

  • Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

  1. To strike.

Noun

buff (plural buffs)

  1. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
Derived terms
  • blind man's buff

Etymology 3

From Middle English buffen (“to stutter, stammer”), from Old English byffan (“to mumble, mutter”), from Proto-West Germanic *bubjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyH- (“to fear, to be afraid”). More at bive (“tremble, shake”) and bever.

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter

Etymology 4

Clipping of buffalo.

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

  1. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.

Etymology 5

Noun

buff (plural buffs)

  1. (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”)
    • 1899, Selected Lives (orig. by Plutarch), page 317:
      For they had helmets on their heads, fashioned like wild beast's necks, and strange beavers or buffs to the same, and wore on their helmets great high plumes of feathers, as they had been wings : […]

Icelandic

Etymology 1

From Danish bøf, a short form of Danish bøfsteg, from English beefsteak.

The confectionary meaning also exists in Danish.

Noun

buff n

  1. beefsteak
  2. a chocolate-covered, marshmallow-creme-filled confectionary
Derived terms
  • hakkabuff (“beef patty”)

Etymology 2

A generic trademark from the brand name Buff, whose bandanas were popularized by the Survivor TV series.

Noun

buff n

  1. a multifunctional neck gaiter; a tubular bandana (used to keep one's head or neck warm during outdoor activities)

See also

  • lambhúshetta (“balaclava”)

Source: wiktionary.org