An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 123

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 123

BUFE, _s._ Beef, S. B.


Fr. _boeuf_, id. Isl. _bufe_, cattle; from _bu_, an ox.


_To_ BUFF, _v. n._ To emit a dull sound, as a bladder filled with wind does, S.


_Chr. Kirk._


_It played buff_, S. It made no impression.


Belg. _boff-en_, to puff up the cheeks with wind; Fr. _bouff-er_, id.


_To_ BUFF, _v. a. To buff corn_, to give grain half thrashing, S.


"The best of him is _buft_," a phrase commonly used to denote that ones natural strength is much gone, S.


Alem. _buff-en_, pulsare.


_To buff herring_, to steep salted herrings in fresh water, and hang them up, S.


~Buff~, _s._ A stroke, a blow, S.


_Chr. Kirk._


Fr. _bouffe_, a blow, L. B. _buffa_, alapa.


_To_ BUFF _out_, _v. n._ To laugh aloud, S.


Fr. _bouffee_, a sudden, violent, and short blast, _buff-ir_, to spurt.


BUFF, _s._ Nonsense, foolish talk, S.


_Shirrefs._


Teut. _beffe_, id. nugae, irrisio; Fr. _buffoi_, vanite; also moquerie.


BUFF, _s._ Skin. _Stript to the buff_, stript naked, S.


Perhaps from E. _buff_, as denoting leather prepared from the _skin_ of a buffalo.


BUFF NOR STYE. _He coud neither say buff nor stye_, S. i. e. "He could neither say one thing nor another." It is also used, but, I suspect, improperly, in regard to one who has no activity; _He has neither buff nor stye with him_ S. B.


Teut. _bof_, celeusma, a cheer made by mariners. _Stye_ might be viewed as referring to the act of mounting the shrouds, from Su. G.


_stig-a_, to ascend.


BUFFER, _s._ A foolish fellow; a term much used among young people, Clydes.


Fr. _bouffard_, "often puffing, strouting out, swelling with anger,"


Cotgr.


BUFFETS, _s. pl._ A swelling in the glands of the throat, Ang.


(_branks_, synon.) probably from Fr. _bouffe_, swollen.


BUFFETSTOOL, _s._ A stool with sides, in form of a square table with leaves, when these are folded down, S. Lincolns, id.


_A. Douglas._


Fr. _buffet_, a sideboard; expl. by Roquefort, dressoir, which denotes a board for holding plates without box or drawer.


BUFFIE, BUFFLE, _adj._ Fat, purfled; applied to the face, S.


Fr. _bouffe_, blown up, swollen.


BUFFONS, _s. pl._ Pantomimic dances.


Fr. _boufons_, those by whom they were performed.


BUG, _pret._ Built.


V. ~Big~, _v._


_Minstrelsy Border._


BUGE, _s._ "Lambs fur; Fr. _agnelin_." Rudd.


_Douglas._


Fr. _bouge_, E. _buge_, id.


BUGGE, _s._ A bugbear.


V. ~Boggarde~.


BUGGLE, _s._ A bog, a mora.s.s, S. B. This seems to be merely a dimin.