(figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
(specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
befume
begulf
bepuff
bepuff
verb
(archaic) To puff out.
(archaic, transitive) To puff; praise fulsomely; bepraise.
bouffe
bouffe
noun
(music) A comic opera
verb
(transitive) To make bouffant.
buffed
buffed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of buff
buffer
buffer
adj
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
noun
(UK, nautical, slang) The chief boatswain's mate.
(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
(computing) A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
(figurative) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
(mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
(politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
(rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
(rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
(telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
verb
(chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
(computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
buffet
buffet
noun
(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
A small low stool; a hassock.
Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
verb
(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
(transitive, figurative) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
buffle
buffle
noun
(obsolete) A buffalo.
verb
(intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
bumfeg
fubbed
fubbed
verb
simple past tense and past participle of fub
fumble
fumble
noun
(Britain) A dessert similar to a cross between a fool and a crumble.
(sports, American football, Canadian football) A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
verb
(intransitive) To blunder uncertainly.
(slang, obsolete) Of a man, to sexually underperform.
(transitive, intransitive) To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
(transitive, intransitive) To handle nervously or awkwardly.
(transitive, intransitive, sports) To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
funbre
rebuff
rebuff
noun
A sudden resistance or refusal.
He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
verb
(transitive) To buff again.
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
rubefy
rubefy
verb
to make red
subfeu
subfeu
noun
(Scotland law, historical) A feu sublet by a vassal to a subvassal: a right to hold subinfeudated land in perpetuity in exchange for rent.
verb
(transitive and intransitive, Scotland law, historical) To subinfeud: to grant land via a subfeu.