buff
verb/bʌf/
/bʌf/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they buff | /bʌf/ /bʌf/ |
| he / she / it buffs | /bʌfs/ /bʌfs/ |
| past simple buffed | /bʌft/ /bʌft/ |
| past participle buffed | /bʌft/ /bʌft/ |
| -ing form buffing | /ˈbʌfɪŋ/ /ˈbʌfɪŋ/ |
- buff something (up) to polish something with a soft cloth
- I buffed up the brass with a cloth.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBuff is used with these nouns as the object:- shoe
- (informal) (in a new version of a computer game) to increase the power of a character, weapon, etc.
- buff something The developers have buffed the swords in the latest release.
- buff somebody She has been buffed to increase the amount of damage she can do.
Word Originverb mid 16th cent.: probably from French buffle, from Italian bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’. The original sense in English was ‘buffalo’, later ‘oxhide’ or ‘colour of oxhide’.
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