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buffhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From buff + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).
    • 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:
    • Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories. 1973, Scientific American, volume 228, page 43:

Synonyms

buffery