Anthus rubescens, a small songbird found on both sides of the northern Pacific.

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. / Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves. / A small low stool; a hassock.

(countable) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

(transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap. / (transitive, figuratively) To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it. / A machine for polishing shoes and boots.

Comparative form of buff: more buff.

(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.

To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another. / (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.

(colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.

Battered, especially by strong wind.