buffet
buffet is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 9 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
- 2.A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.
- 3.A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity. Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak.
- 4.A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst.
- 5.To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. They spit in his face and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi.
- 6.2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black.
- 7.Etym: [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
- 8.To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. Shak.
- 9.To make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. Tennyson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- blow
- box
- bruise
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- cause
- cost
- crying
- damage
- demon
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
- doer
- drawback
- evil
- field
- flesh
- flood
- foul
- gash
- grievance
- harm
- heir
- hurt
- ill
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is buffet.
- What is a counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering called?
- What is a blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott called?
- What is a small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter. Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst called?
- What is to strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. They spit in his face and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi called?
- What is etym: [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper called?
- What is to exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. Shak called?
- What is to make one's way by blows or struggling. Strove to buffet to land in vain. Tennyson called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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