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    buff


    buffed


    buffing


    buffs


    1. He usually slept in the buff but for


    2. Way too boi-woi to be taken seriously, even by a science-fiction buff, which she was not


    3. These girls were very young and very buff, wearing loincloths so tiny that it was obvious their pubes were shaved or maybe not mature yet


    4. He’s a Civil War buff who arrives early, taking along a book on some leader, unit, battle, campaign, or political aspect of the Civil War


    5. I’m not much of a history buff


    6. You’re a movie buff, then


    7. However, the tourist office suggested I speak to somebody named Jack Llewellyn, who had lived in the area all of his life and had the reputation of being something of a local history buff


    8. After November 2011, Simmons said he went from being a fitness buff always up for a


    9. I told you earlier in my story that I’m a history buff and the history


    10. I saw that he was extremely tall, and extremely buff

    11. Never a music buff, I couldn’t tell what music was playing, but it soothingly filled my ears


    12. My cousin is an amateur photography buff


    13. People would come up to me with a knowing smile and ask “Say, where did a gynecologist learn to do orthopedic work in the buff?” Apparently, while I had not said a word out of respect for her privacy, she had gone around and told everyone


    14. In the buff, he walked to the bedroom door and followed the


    15. That ain’t gonna buff out


    16. “The girl I like is a buff old man with a


    17. Inside the buff coloured folder were the typed instructions to form eight companies but none contained Jones’ name


    18. ” He tapped his finger on the buff coloured file and stared at Hammond who decided to sit down again


    19. Carmen opened a buff coloured file and turned it around towards the policeman, he saw an old black and white picture of a man in a German uniform from around the 1940’s


    20. may buff out of place

    21. tion buff, had borrowed the manual from Stallman a while


    22. The ecclesiastical delegates who had come to investigate the report of the strange death of the birds and the sacrifice of the Wandering Jew found Father Antonio Isabel playing blind man’s buff with the children, and thinking that his report was the product of a hallucination, they took him off to an asylum


    23. Another of my designers was an auto buff and had seen in a magazine a jig that Austin-Rover


    24. Using finer and finer needle files, then 320 grit wet n dry sand paper, then hard buff (with white diamond buffing compound), clean-up, and then final buff with jewelers’ rouge and clean-up, I brought the piece to life


    25. Charleston – a favorite area of Walt’s, who was a history buff – my flight up, the weather


    26. already knew some of it - being a history buff, and avid reader of ‘WW Two’


    27. The funny thing was is that a year later he turned into a buff football player and then, a few years after that, he turned fat again


    28. She has always been a mystery buff, another reason for her to like her job


    29. A few minutes later five buff folders were in his hand, containing papers secured with cotton ribbon


    30. ” Said Miri, who had been won over as a history buff by her son Len

    31. It was like some hideously perverted game of “blind-man’s-buff”, made so much worse by the fact that the blind man could see the expressions of delighted derision all around him (and made so much worse for his tormentors because he really was “in the buff”)


    32. Since Paul had never been a car buff, he didn’t have the slightest idea what year the realtor’s Cadillac was


    33. buff he gets when he reaches less than 51% life


    34. Traditionally, water diet is taken to buff or speed up the effects of other diet


    35. You can buff out


    36. With my head in the buff


    37. The part that could knew that Bernice Sinclaire hadn’t passed up a bit of extra credit in the two years she’d sat in a class, while the part that couldn’t questioned why a student with a perfect GPA would want to buff her grade up past its already-outstanding one-hundred-and-twenty-percent


    38. They didn’t sense the crew members and their friends on the buff above


    39. After a couple of minutes, Buff touches his shoulder


    40. “Wait here,” Buff says

    41. They return after a few minutes, and Buff tells me, “We’re going to let you go, but we don’t want to see you—or your girlfriend—here ever again


    42. Chuck, despite his skeletal looks, deemed himself a fitness buff


    43. "Yea I am," He said all trying to be buff, "I didn't realize how famous I was


    44. 'You're the car buff


    45. breastplates over buff coats and red sashes were tied around


    46. She had seen many men who may have been more handsome by societal standards, but Roric was all man with nothing left to question, which she found to be more attractive than just another pretty face with a buff body


    47. Whatever Greek gods had looked like they must have been modeled after these men, to say they were buff looking was putting it mildly


    48. “Sage seems unable to choose one of the handsome hunks—ski bum or photography buff


    49. He lifted his free hand as if to reassure her that he didn’t have a gun or a knife, but she seriously doubted someone that buff needed a weapon to maim or kill


    50. He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches

















    1. He bent and buffed the silver on his boots once again


    2. On the back of my small pack I had a rolled up ground sheet and a spade attached to it and then fixed onto the flap I had a buffed up triangle of tin


    3. Then she attacked my nails again, spreading some kind of cream on them as she buffed each one carefully to a high shine


    4. ” He buffed the wet spot with a clean tissue until the gloss returned


    5. 9 But Herod feared John for he knew that he was a righteous man and a holy; and he guarded him and heard him much and did and obeyed him with gladness; And he wished to kill him; but he feared the people for they adhered to him as the prophet; And there was a celebrated day and Herod had made a feast for his great men on the day of his anniversary and for the officers and for the chief men of Galilee; And the daughter of Herodias came in and danced in the midst of the company and pleased Herod and those who sat with him; And the king said to the damsel Ask of me what you will and I will give it you; And he sware to her whatever you shall ask I will give it you to the half of my kingdom; And she went out and said to her mother What shall I ask him? She said to her The head of John the Baptist; And immediately she came in hastily to the king and said to him I desire in this hour that you give me on a dish the head of John the Baptist; And the king was exceeding sorry; but because of the oath and the guests he did not wish to refuse her; But immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded that he should bring the head of John and he went and cut off the head of John in the prison and brought it on a dish and delivered it to the damsel; and the damsel gave it to her mother; And his disciples heard and came and took his body and buffed it; And they came and told Jesus what had happened; And for this cause Herod said I beheaded John: who is this of whom I hear these things; And he desired to see him; And Jesus when he heard moved from there in a boat to a waste place alone to the other side of the sea of the Galilee of Tiberias


    6. buffed the moisture from his hair and blotted the water from his face


    7. The condominium development was luxurious in every detail from the elegantly landscaped walkways complete with low-level lighting and always blooming flowers to the fountains that graced the entrance to the lobby to the buffed marble exterior that matched the Versailles clubhouse to the bronzed doorknobs, plaques, and rails


    8. It was only then that he noticed his Pantera on the side lawn, completely washed and buffed, even down to super-black applied carefully to the tires


    9. He spat on it, rubbed it again, and buffed it on the seat of his jeans


    10. ” Wille studied me as he would’ve an old ewer, newly buffed

    11. You’ll be given a bath, have your hair washed and styled and your fingernails buffed and polished


    12. The second girl buffed and polished my fingernails, while the third servant girl did the same with my toenails


    13. the shiny surface to be buffed out evenly, a thin varnish coating tends to look


    14. Under Kate’s tireless and frankly intrusive instruction, my legs and underarms are shaved to perfection, my eyebrows plucked, and I am buffed all over


    15. The floors were buffed concrete


    16. This was Junior’s enforcer? The new Butcher? This buffed punk at his beach house? In bathing trunks and plastic shoes?


    17. "Oberon, my son, I wasn't expecting you," he said, musical voice barely accented with Spanish, drawing up one knee, eyes moving over the rest of us as he smiled cordially, toenails manicured and buffed to a shine


    18. The chairs in this surprising room were genuine Chippendale, around a finely buffed oval table


    1. His wife embellished her life considerably with good quality clothes and jewellery, buffing up her ego and fluffing her aura so much that she became a leading light in the social whirl at the country club


    2. There was something sensual in applying polish then rubbing it off and finally buffing the car down to get the shine deep and slippery


    3. Buffing a marble tabletop with car polish leaves a thin, invisible film that helps reduce the risk of stains


    4. Using finer and finer needle files, then 320 grit wet n dry sand paper, then hard buff (with white diamond buffing compound), clean-up, and then final buff with jewelers’ rouge and clean-up, I brought the piece to life


    5. When I finished filing and sandpapering, I’d use little wheel brushes in a hand piece to transfer the buffing compound to the gold and then I’d press down a bit with the brush and it would shine the gold as the bristles spun around, reaching back to the block of white diamond while the brush was still whirling to pick up some more compound for more buffing


    6. buffing the blade of your knife


    7. Encourage a healthy shine by buffing the nails with a soft chamois leather buffer


    8. Pocock had spent his days at Travers Island carefully sanding down the shell’s hull and then applying coat after coat of marine varnish, buffing each coat until the shell glistened


    1. ‘I’ve not seen anyone use it for ages … well, apart from the steam engine buffs – some of them used to use it …’


    2. For the history buffs among us


    3. Starting in 1986, the Genus II edition of Trivial Pursuit told a whole generation of trivia buffs that blue moons were the second full moon in a calendar month


    4. As for my father’s purchase, Overacker reported, It was the consensus of the Duesenberg buffs that Mr


    5. For you code buffs, I am sorry I can’t


    6. For you Musical History buffs, know


    7. prophecy buffs for years including myself


    8. in buying the brain: World War II buffs mostly, but also a few would-


    9. A note on orthography: Eighteenth-century buffs will know, of course, that capitalization and spelling were highly capricious in that age, and only beginning to be standardized at a later date


    10. The book is currently in its fifth edition, but Sonkin and many value buffs prefer earlier versions

    11. Maybe it was Har-Tru, which the tennis buffs back in Maryland seemed to favor


    12. The development of cinema isn’t just a topic for film buffs: It played a crucial part in creating a new world culture


    13. Film buffs marvel at how Hitchcock breaks all the rules, killing off his glamorous star early in the film, twirling the camera round in a spiral to focus on her eye, but Psycho really reflects America’s growing love affair with Freud


    14. There, despite the bombardment, we found a Cockney Tommy of the Buffs playing "Tipperary" on a piano which had been blown out of a house into the road


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    Synonyms for "buff"

    buff buffer caramel caramel brown raw sienna yellowish brown devotee fan lover burnish furbish buffet shine brush brighten rub tan yellow-brown tawny brown

    "buff" definitions

    an ardent follower and admirer


    a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen


    bare skin


    a medium to dark tan color


    an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)


    strike, beat repeatedly


    polish and make shiny


    of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather