buffet
/bəˈfeɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.54 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
Countable
noun
The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups."
- "We'll be serving supper buffet style."
- ""We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe.""
- "On his cheek a buffet fell."
- "October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay"
- "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."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English buffet (“stool”), from Middle French buffet (“side table”), from Old French buffet, of unknown origin. The modern pronunciation is remodelled after modern French buffet.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bəˈfeɪ/
- British English: /ˈbʊf.eɪ/