dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/buf_MW.json

{
  "buff":{
    "antonyms":[
      "file",
      "grind",
      "hone",
      "rasp",
      "rub",
      "sand"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device having a soft absorbent surface (as of cloth) by which polishing material is applied":[],
      ": a garment (such as a uniform) made of buff leather":[],
      ": a light to moderate yellow":[],
      ": a moderate orange yellow":[],
      ": fan , enthusiast":[],
      ": having a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises":[],
      ": of the color buff":[],
      ": polish , shine":[
        "waxed and buffed the floor"
      ],
      ": the state of being nude":[
        "sunbathing in the buff"
      ],
      ": to give a velvety surface to (leather)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "he's such a film buff that he owns over 3,000 movies",
      "protected by a fully enclosed backyard, the couple would frequently sunbathe in the buff",
      "Adjective",
      "He's at the gym every day trying to get buff .",
      "the buff body of an athlete",
      "Verb",
      "The floors are waxed and buffed every year.",
      "She is going to the salon to get her nails buffed .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In the first beta, all damage heroes received a speed buff , but that won\u2019t be the case in the second beta. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "Belk, a lifelong history buff , even joined the ranks of Martha Jefferson, who had brewed beer at Monticello to make brackish water safe to drink. \u2014 Kelly Gray, Town & Country , 22 June 2022",
      "Become a Houston history buff on a Buffalo Bayou boat tour Cruise Buffalo Bayou with a local historian on the Spirit of the Bayou and discover how the important waterway was crucial to developing the fourth-largest city in the country. \u2014 Gabi De La Rosa, Chron , 8 June 2022",
      "Sutton, a landscaper, drives; his girlfriend, a horror movie buff , tries to solve the clues from the passenger seat. \u2014 Amanda Coletta, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
      "For less than $1,000, any movie buff can set up a cinema-quality projector system in their own home in less than an hour. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "In fact, people have been bathing in the buff on Nantucket\u2019s more remote stretches for years. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
      "The USS Lexington, a WWII-era aircraft carrier is also a winner for the family history buff . \u2014 Rebecca Treon, Chron , 23 May 2022",
      "For the history buff , consider this collection of New York Times front pages from every year on your father-in-law's birthday. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The secret to applying a foolproof fake tan is to use a blending brush to buff self-tanning mousse or spray into the skin. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, SELF , 27 May 2022",
      "The company\u2019s logo is a silhouette of a buff runner holding a wine glass in one hand and a bunch of grapes in the other. \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
      "Trimming the losers while moving funds into defensive or hedging positions can reduce losses and even buff returns. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "But most of the attention has come from other boys on TikTok looking to get buff . \u2014 New York Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Barred Rocks, buff Orpingtons and all types of bantams set well. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Then again, few of us are as buff as The Rock or as suave as James Bond. \u2014 Callum Borchers, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "And here\u2019s the real naked truth about nude art modeling: Most models do not look like buff male athletes that leaped off a Grecian urn or come-hither maidens that sauntered off a Renaissance canvas. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "Around the aquamarines is a festoon motif of pink rubellites, buff -top amethysts and white diamonds set in pink gold. \u2014 WSJ , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "For extra congested areas, massage a second time to really buff the product onto your face. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "Send your history buff a piece of America's past, everything from the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to the moment the first atomic bomb came to be. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 16 May 2022",
      "Suede is made using a technique called Sueding, in which an abrasive is applied to buff the surface of the hide. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Together, these ingredients work to break down and buff away at dry skin, effectively cleansing and leaving only healthy and new skin behind. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "The point of this change isn\u2019t purely to buff him or counterbalance the nerfs. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
      "After pledging $21 billion in equity and raising $25.5 billion of debt and margin loan financing, Musk has continued to use Twitter to buff his image as a brash billionaire who is not afraid to break the rules of polite society. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "What about the people who buff the Bay Bridge to a shine",
      "Gently buff away dullness and impurities with this scrub, best used every two to three days. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1746, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French buffle wild ox, from Old Italian bufalo":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u0259f"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "addict",
      "aficionado",
      "afficionado",
      "bug",
      "devotee",
      "enthusiast",
      "fan",
      "fanatic",
      "fancier",
      "fiend",
      "fool",
      "freak",
      "habitu\u00e9",
      "habitue",
      "head",
      "hound",
      "junkie",
      "junky",
      "lover",
      "maniac",
      "maven",
      "mavin",
      "nut",
      "sucker"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-190131",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "buff stick":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a strip of wood covered with buff leather or chamois and used in polishing":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "buff entry 6":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104529",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buff stop":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a partially damping or muffling device on a harpsichord or piano":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "buff entry 9":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073108",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buff top":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a style of cut of certain gemstones in which the top is cut cabochon and the bottom is step-cut":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "buff entry 6":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114720",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buff-tip":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a European moth ( Phalera bucephala ) having violet-gray forewings with creamy tips and caterpillars that feed on the leaves of elm, beech, birch, oak, and fruit trees":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "buff entry 5":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-231152",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buffalo":{
    "antonyms":[
      "undeceive"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several suckers (genus Ictiobus ) found mostly in the Mississippi River valley":[],
      ": any of several wild bovids: such as":[],
      ": cape buffalo":[],
      ": the flesh of the buffalo used as food":[],
      ": water buffalo":[],
      "city and port on Lake Erie and the Niagara River in western New York population 261,310":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense.",
      "in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Now the Eastern Shoshone have 65 buffalo and the Northern Arapaho 32. \u2014 David Kelly, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "An American buffalo is on the loose, casually roaming around Chicago's suburbs looking for a new home. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "In 2016, Canada allowed 100 buffalo to be returned to the Blackfeet Reservation. \u2014 Michelle Miller, CBS News , 25 Nov. 2021",
      "An effort to bring wild buffalo to the Great Plains aims to restore one of the world\u2019s most endangered landscapes and increase climate resilience. \u2014 Louise Johns, Wired , 12 June 2021",
      "Others have a Columbian buffalo mozzarella that Frankel likes. \u2014 Michael Russell, oregonlive , 16 Oct. 2020",
      "Jaguars, sloths, tapirs, horses, coyotes, buffalo , rabbits, and squirrels up and down the North American continent are now spared from screwworms too. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 26 May 2020",
      "Make that the big ten\u2014lion, my face, leopard, my face, rhino, my face, elephant, my face, buffalo , my face. \u2014 Colin Nissan, The New Yorker , 18 Dec. 2019",
      "Today, a lot of paneer in India is made with a mix of buffalo and less-expensive cow\u2019s milk. \u2014 Leena Trivedi-grenier, SFChronicle.com , 15 May 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Eva has the senior management in our company completely buffaloed . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 18 Feb. 2020",
      "How far must buffalo roam to fulfill their ecological role"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian bufalo & Spanish b\u00fafalo , from Late Latin bufalus , alteration of Latin bubalus , from Greek boubalos African gazelle":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u0259-f\u0259-\u02ccl\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bamboozle",
      "beguile",
      "bluff",
      "burn",
      "catch",
      "con",
      "cozen",
      "deceive",
      "delude",
      "dupe",
      "fake out",
      "fool",
      "gaff",
      "gammon",
      "gull",
      "have",
      "have on",
      "hoax",
      "hoodwink",
      "hornswoggle",
      "humbug",
      "juggle",
      "misguide",
      "misinform",
      "mislead",
      "snooker",
      "snow",
      "spoof",
      "string along",
      "suck in",
      "sucker",
      "take in",
      "trick"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232746",
    "type":[
      "geographical name",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "buffalo weed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": great ragweed":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104633",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buffalo wing":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a deep-fried chicken wing coated with a spicy sauce and usually served with a blue cheese dressing":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For the next five hours, over buffalo wings and a glass of milk, Jackson told them everything. \u2014 Michael E. Miller, Washington Post , 27 Dec. 2019",
      "In keeping with the spirit of individuality, Game trades out buffalo wings for frog legs ($12) and the sizable cuts are battered with buttermilk and deep-fried with a zippy jalapeno tartar sauce served alongside. \u2014 Lindsey Mcclave, The Courier-Journal , 18 Dec. 2019",
      "This bacon dipped in the buffalo wing sauce hella slaps. \u2014 Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com , 12 Dec. 2019",
      "For a classic buffalo wing vibe, pair your dip with classic celery sticks. \u2014 The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping , 14 Nov. 2019",
      "Order a plate of double crispy buffalo wings ($12) or buffalo chicken fries ($11). \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 19 Sep. 2019",
      "Wings: Folks have the option of ordering two kinds of wings at the new pie shop \u2014 house Szechuan dry fried wings and classic buffalo wings . \u2014 Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com , 9 July 2019",
      "Before his execution, Wilson requested a medium, thin-crust pizza with everything and buffalo wings with spicy sauce. \u2014 Nicole Chavez, CNN , 20 June 2019",
      "For those who prefer fries, the topping options include fajitas, onions and chicken breast with buffalo wing sauce. \u2014 Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle , 20 June 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1981, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Buffalo , New York":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-103510",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buffalo wolf":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the gray wolf of central and western U.S.":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "so called from its former abundance in the buffalo country":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104502",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buffed":{
    "antonyms":[
      "file",
      "grind",
      "hone",
      "rasp",
      "rub",
      "sand"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a device having a soft absorbent surface (as of cloth) by which polishing material is applied":[],
      ": a garment (such as a uniform) made of buff leather":[],
      ": a light to moderate yellow":[],
      ": a moderate orange yellow":[],
      ": fan , enthusiast":[],
      ": having a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises":[],
      ": of the color buff":[],
      ": polish , shine":[
        "waxed and buffed the floor"
      ],
      ": the state of being nude":[
        "sunbathing in the buff"
      ],
      ": to give a velvety surface to (leather)":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "he's such a film buff that he owns over 3,000 movies",
      "protected by a fully enclosed backyard, the couple would frequently sunbathe in the buff",
      "Adjective",
      "He's at the gym every day trying to get buff .",
      "the buff body of an athlete",
      "Verb",
      "The floors are waxed and buffed every year.",
      "She is going to the salon to get her nails buffed .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "In the first beta, all damage heroes received a speed buff , but that won\u2019t be the case in the second beta. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "Belk, a lifelong history buff , even joined the ranks of Martha Jefferson, who had brewed beer at Monticello to make brackish water safe to drink. \u2014 Kelly Gray, Town & Country , 22 June 2022",
      "Become a Houston history buff on a Buffalo Bayou boat tour Cruise Buffalo Bayou with a local historian on the Spirit of the Bayou and discover how the important waterway was crucial to developing the fourth-largest city in the country. \u2014 Gabi De La Rosa, Chron , 8 June 2022",
      "Sutton, a landscaper, drives; his girlfriend, a horror movie buff , tries to solve the clues from the passenger seat. \u2014 Amanda Coletta, Washington Post , 12 May 2022",
      "For less than $1,000, any movie buff can set up a cinema-quality projector system in their own home in less than an hour. \u2014 Mike Richard, Men's Health , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "In fact, people have been bathing in the buff on Nantucket\u2019s more remote stretches for years. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 5 June 2022",
      "The USS Lexington, a WWII-era aircraft carrier is also a winner for the family history buff . \u2014 Rebecca Treon, Chron , 23 May 2022",
      "For the history buff , consider this collection of New York Times front pages from every year on your father-in-law's birthday. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The secret to applying a foolproof fake tan is to use a blending brush to buff self-tanning mousse or spray into the skin. \u2014 Cristina Montemayor, SELF , 27 May 2022",
      "The company\u2019s logo is a silhouette of a buff runner holding a wine glass in one hand and a bunch of grapes in the other. \u2014 Dave Mcintyre, Washington Post , 19 May 2022",
      "Trimming the losers while moving funds into defensive or hedging positions can reduce losses and even buff returns. \u2014 Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes , 18 May 2022",
      "But most of the attention has come from other boys on TikTok looking to get buff . \u2014 New York Times , 5 Mar. 2022",
      "Barred Rocks, buff Orpingtons and all types of bantams set well. \u2014 John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Then again, few of us are as buff as The Rock or as suave as James Bond. \u2014 Callum Borchers, WSJ , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "And here\u2019s the real naked truth about nude art modeling: Most models do not look like buff male athletes that leaped off a Grecian urn or come-hither maidens that sauntered off a Renaissance canvas. \u2014 Ren\u00e9 A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "Around the aquamarines is a festoon motif of pink rubellites, buff -top amethysts and white diamonds set in pink gold. \u2014 WSJ , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "For extra congested areas, massage a second time to really buff the product onto your face. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 May 2022",
      "Send your history buff a piece of America's past, everything from the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to the moment the first atomic bomb came to be. \u2014 Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping , 16 May 2022",
      "Suede is made using a technique called Sueding, in which an abrasive is applied to buff the surface of the hide. \u2014 Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY , 15 Apr. 2022",
      "Together, these ingredients work to break down and buff away at dry skin, effectively cleansing and leaving only healthy and new skin behind. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "The point of this change isn\u2019t purely to buff him or counterbalance the nerfs. \u2014 Kris Holt, Forbes , 5 May 2022",
      "After pledging $21 billion in equity and raising $25.5 billion of debt and margin loan financing, Musk has continued to use Twitter to buff his image as a brash billionaire who is not afraid to break the rules of polite society. \u2014 Sophie Mellor, Fortune , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "What about the people who buff the Bay Bridge to a shine",
      "Gently buff away dullness and impurities with this scrub, best used every two to three days. \u2014 Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune , 10 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1570, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1746, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Adjective",
      "1838, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French buffle wild ox, from Old Italian bufalo":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u0259f"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "addict",
      "aficionado",
      "afficionado",
      "bug",
      "devotee",
      "enthusiast",
      "fan",
      "fanatic",
      "fancier",
      "fiend",
      "fool",
      "freak",
      "habitu\u00e9",
      "habitue",
      "head",
      "hound",
      "junkie",
      "junky",
      "lover",
      "maniac",
      "maven",
      "mavin",
      "nut",
      "sucker"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034736",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "buffer":{
    "antonyms":[
      "cushion",
      "gentle",
      "soften"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a means or device used as a cushion against the shock of fluctuations in business or financial activity":[],
      ": a person who shields another especially from annoying routine matters":[],
      ": any of various devices or pieces of material for reducing shock or damage due to contact":[],
      ": buffer state":[],
      ": mediator sense 1":[],
      ": one that buffs":[],
      ": something that serves as a protective barrier: such as":[],
      ": to collect (data) in a buffer":[],
      ": to lessen the shock of : cushion":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The trees help buffer the house from the hot summer sun.",
      "The wall buffers the noise of the traffic."
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1749, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1845, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb",
      "1854, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "buff , verb, to react like a soft body when struck":"Noun",
      "origin unknown":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8b\u0259f-\u0259r",
      "\u02c8b\u0259-f\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "broker",
      "conciliator",
      "go-between",
      "honest broker",
      "interceder",
      "intercessor",
      "intermediary",
      "intermediate",
      "interposer",
      "mediator",
      "middleman",
      "peacemaker"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110111",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "buffer state":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a usually neutral state lying between two larger potentially rival powers":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The country has long existed as a buffer state \u2014 spending 700 years as part of Sweden before being retched away by the Russian Empire in 1809. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Mar. 2022",
      "Lukashenko has led the former Soviet republic that Moscow sees as a buffer state to the West since 1994 and strengthened ties with Moscow during mass protests that erupted in 2020 as the West imposed sanctions. \u2014 NBC News , 18 Jan. 2022",
      "By these means, Ukraine would become a neutral buffer state . \u2014 Noah Millman, The Week , 9 Jan. 2022",
      "In Putin\u2019s worldview of a Russia threatened by an expanding and aggressive NATO, Belarus is the last remaining friendly buffer state between his country and the West. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 26 May 2021",
      "Despite its relatively small population size, Belarus matters to Russia as a buffer state against NATO and a conduit for Russian exports of oil and gas. \u2014 Yuras Karmanau, The Christian Science Monitor , 23 Sep. 2020",
      "De Groesbeeck was a member of a noble family connected to the powerful Prince-Bishopric of Li\u00e8ge, once an affluent buffer state between the Holy Roman Empire and the Low Countries. \u2014 WSJ , 13 Feb. 2019",
      "China is on board since such a deal would preserve the North as a buffer state and ease U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies that do business with the North. \u2014 The Editorial Board, WSJ , 28 May 2018",
      "Syria\u2019s future would be determined by the Arabs, Iran would accept Iraq as a neutral buffer state between it and the Sunni Arab world, and an uneasy peace would prevail. \u2014 Walter Russell Mead, WSJ , 14 May 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1883, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-183116",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "buffet":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bash",
      "baste",
      "bat",
      "batter",
      "beat",
      "belabor",
      "belt",
      "birch",
      "bludgeon",
      "bung up",
      "club",
      "curry",
      "do",
      "drub",
      "fib",
      "flog",
      "hammer",
      "hide",
      "lace",
      "lambaste",
      "lambast",
      "lash",
      "lather",
      "lick",
      "maul",
      "mess (up)",
      "paddle",
      "pelt",
      "pommel",
      "pound",
      "pummel",
      "punch out",
      "rough (up)",
      "slate",
      "slog",
      "switch",
      "tan",
      "thrash",
      "thresh",
      "thump",
      "tromp",
      "wallop",
      "whale",
      "whip",
      "whop",
      "whap",
      "whup",
      "work over"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a blow especially with the hand":[],
      ": a counter for refreshments":[
        "went back to the buffet for a second helping"
      ],
      ": a meal set out on a buffet or table for ready access and informal service":[
        "a restaurant that offers a breakfast buffet"
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        "\u2014 Brad Wetzler"
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      "Verb",
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      "fierce winds buffeted the small sailboat"
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      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1":"Verb",
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      "welt",
      "whack",
      "wham",
      "whop",
      "whap"
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      "noun",
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      "in the comic opera, the buffo shared his entrance aria with a grimacing mime",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Instead of the buffo landlord Benoit coming for the rent, the four Bohemians impersonate him themselves in a skit that was a little beyond the L.A. cast\u2019s comic skills. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Sep. 2019",
      "Alessandro Corbelli brought seasoned basso- buffo authority to the manipulative Alfonso. \u2014 John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com , 18 Feb. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1764, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "Italian, from buffone":""
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      "zany"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015855",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a ludicrous figure : clown":[]
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      "Stop acting like a buffoon .",
      "the children at the birthday party giggled at the buffoon's silly tricks",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "From the start of the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron has fluttered about like a busy buffoon with his dubious diplomacy. \u2014 Steve Forbes, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
      "The president, Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep), is a hack and a buffoon surrounded by many, none more poisonous than her high-ranking son, Jason (Jonah Hill in relentless insult-comic mode). \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing",
      "Cyrano is often played as a man of unfettered brilliance who has learned to be a buffoon as a matter of self-preservation. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "Who would kow-tow to this buffoon and jump through hoops for his blessing",
      "The president, Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep), is a hack and a buffoon surrounded by many, none more poisonous than her high-ranking son, Jason (Jonah Hill in relentless insult-comic mode). \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Joe Biden won in 2020 not simply by making the case that Trump was a dangerous buffoon that everyone was sick of. \u2014 Alex Shephard, The New Republic , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "The president, Janie Orlean (Meryl Streep), is a hack and a buffoon surrounded by many, none more poisonous than her high-ranking son, Jason (Jonah Hill in relentless insult-comic mode). \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 7 Dec. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1584, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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      "Middle French bouffon , from Old Italian buffone":""
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      "zany"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-095555",
    "type":[
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      "noun"
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      "their madcap buffoonery turned the duo into the nation's hottest comedy act",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Despite taunts about being soft on crime, Jackson didn\u2019t lose her cool before the mansplaining and buffoonery . \u2014 Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Giuliani's buffoonery was on full display during a press conference just days after the election held at a local Philadelphia landscaping company that happened to share the name of the Four Seasons hotel. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 3 Feb. 2022",
      "Beauty, youth, heightened vivacity or even buffoonery overwhelm us, and the figures do indeed seem alive. \u2014 Washington Post , 26 Nov. 2021",
      "Ebert applies a freewheeling buffoonery to Mister and, later, an opposite dimension of cruel menace to his other role, a policeman who under stress will undergo a dramatic conversion. \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Aug. 2021",
      "Every buffoonery of the president and his people was answered by an idiocy from the other side, which in its own style was just as sinister and just as clownish. \u2014 Lance Morrow, WSJ , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "After seasons of corruption followed by buffoonery and anger, Daniel Espinoza died an optimist. \u2014 Sara Netzley, EW.com , 28 May 2021",
      "As Kanye descended more into incomprehensible buffoonery , there was high-profile coverage of how Kim helped free Alice Marie Johnson after 21 years in prison. \u2014 Allison P. Davis, Vulture , 26 Apr. 2021",
      "It\u2019s not an art form that will appeal to everyone, with its silliness, rapid dialogue, stock characterizations, manic energy and acting that requires both buffoonery and at times a stilted formality. \u2014 Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com , 21 Feb. 2021"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1621, in the meaning defined above":""
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      "monkeying",
      "monkeyshine(s)",
      "roughhouse",
      "roughhousing",
      "shenanigan(s)",
      "skylarking",
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      "tomfoolery"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061243",
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-144523"
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      "noun"
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      ": any of several gregarious African weavers constituting a subfamily of Ploceidae and being distinguished from other weavers by their bulky untidy nests that are placed on rather than suspended from branches":[]
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    "examples":[],
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      "so called from the massive and rough appearance of its nest":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145547"
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      "noun"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1805, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-212027"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": a breed of buff or golden autosexing fowls developed by interbreeding barred Rocks and buff Orpingtons":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-232453"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-043139"
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      "so called from its location in buffalo country":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-091447"
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      ": any of several suckers (genus Ictiobus ) found mostly in the Mississippi River valley":[],
      "city and port on Lake Erie and the Niagara River in western New York population 261,310":[]
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      "dupe",
      "fake out",
      "fool",
      "gaff",
      "gammon",
      "gull",
      "have",
      "have on",
      "hoax",
      "hoodwink",
      "hornswoggle",
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      "juggle",
      "misguide",
      "misinform",
      "mislead",
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    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense.",
      "in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Now the Eastern Shoshone have 65 buffalo and the Northern Arapaho 32. \u2014 David Kelly, Los Angeles Times , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "An American buffalo is on the loose, casually roaming around Chicago's suburbs looking for a new home. \u2014 Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY , 10 Dec. 2021",
      "In 2016, Canada allowed 100 buffalo to be returned to the Blackfeet Reservation. \u2014 Michelle Miller, CBS News , 25 Nov. 2021",
      "An effort to bring wild buffalo to the Great Plains aims to restore one of the world\u2019s most endangered landscapes and increase climate resilience. \u2014 Louise Johns, Wired , 12 June 2021",
      "Others have a Columbian buffalo mozzarella that Frankel likes. \u2014 Michael Russell, oregonlive , 16 Oct. 2020",
      "Jaguars, sloths, tapirs, horses, coyotes, buffalo , rabbits, and squirrels up and down the North American continent are now spared from screwworms too. \u2014 Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic , 26 May 2020",
      "Make that the big ten\u2014lion, my face, leopard, my face, rhino, my face, elephant, my face, buffalo , my face. \u2014 Colin Nissan, The New Yorker , 18 Dec. 2019",
      "Today, a lot of paneer in India is made with a mix of buffalo and less-expensive cow\u2019s milk. \u2014 Leena Trivedi-grenier, SFChronicle.com , 15 May 2020",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Eva has the senior management in our company completely buffaloed . \u2014 Anchorage Daily News , 18 Feb. 2020",
      "How far must buffalo roam to fulfill their ecological role"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Italian bufalo & Spanish b\u00fafalo , from Late Latin bufalus , alteration of Latin bubalus , from Greek boubalos African gazelle":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
      "1891, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-151705"
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  "buffalo gourd":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a perennial foul-smelling cucurbit ( Cucurbita foetidissima ) of arid lands of the central and southwest U.S. and Mexico with a large starchy taproot and seeds rich in oil":[]
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1898, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-154252"
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  "buffalo grass":{
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Replace your lawn with buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis), or purple three-awn grass (Aristida purpurea). \u2014 Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune , 4 June 2022",
      "About 90% of SoCal lawns are planted with deep-green fescue grass, Baird says, but warm-season grasses such as Bermuda or buffalo grass need about 20% less water to stay green in hot, dry conditions. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 11 Jan. 2022",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 June 2021",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 Matthew Brown And Felicia Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 June 2021",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 June 2021",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 Matthew Brown And Felicia Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 June 2021",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 26 June 2021",
      "Meantime, attention surrounding the skirmish provided the Sioux with foundation backing to develop a wind farm in Porcupine Hills, an area of scrub oak and buffalo grass with cattle ranches. \u2014 Matthew Brown And Felicia Fonseca, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 June 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1784, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-162723"
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    "definitions":{
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    "history_and_etymology":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172533"
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-195406"
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      "noun"
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      ": bluebonnet sense 3b":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "so called from its location in buffalo country":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203403"
  },
  "Buffalo Grove":{
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    "definitions":{
      "city northwest of Chicago in northeastern Illinois population 41,496":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205059"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205355"
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  "buffalo chips":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
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      ": dry dung of buffalo or of livestock especially when used as fuel":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210542"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-010102"
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  "buffalo soldier":{
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "In World War II, Dasani\u2019s great-grandfather was a buffalo soldier , a term that Native Americans used in the 19th century to describe Black troops, and one that stuck. \u2014 Washington Post , 3 Dec. 2021",
      "Highlight the stories of the buffalo soldiers , who became some of America\u2019s first park rangers. \u2014 Latria Graham, Outside Online , 10 Apr. 2018",
      "Highlight the stories of the buffalo soldiers , who became some of America\u2019s first park rangers. \u2014 Latria Graham, Outside Online , 10 Apr. 2018",
      "There are no movies or mentions of buffalo soldiers . \u2014 Michael Harriot, The Root , 19 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1872, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011241"
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  "buffalo gnat":{
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011942"
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      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a shallow undrained depression occurring on the Great Plains, often containing water in wet seasons, and generally thought to have been produced or deepened by the rolling and wallowing of herds of buffalo in mud and dust":[]
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014032"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "so called from its appearance":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-014139"
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