noun. A blow with the fist; a box; a cuff; a slap; hence, hard usage of any kind suggestive of blows; a violent shock or concussion: as, “fortune's buffets,”

noun. A blast of wind.

To strike with the hand or fist; box; beat.

To beat in contention; contend against as if with blows: as, to buffet the billows.

To exercise at boxing; box; contend with blows of the fists; hence, to force one's way by buffeting.

noun. A cupboard, sideboard, or closet, designed to hold china, crystal, plate, and other like articles.

noun. The space set apart for refreshments in public places.

noun. That part of the cabinet-work of an organ which incloses the pipes.

noun. Same as buffet-stool. Wright, Prov. Dict.

noun. A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.

noun. A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.

noun. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

transitive verb. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.

transitive verb. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

transitive verb. To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

intransitive verb. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.

intransitive verb. To make one's way by blows or struggling.

noun. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.

noun. A counter for food or refreshments.

noun. A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

noun. A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

noun. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

noun. Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

noun. A low stool; a hassock.

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

verb. To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.

noun. usually inexpensive bar

noun. a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves

verb. strike, beat repeatedly

verb. strike against forcefully

noun. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

"Lunch from the on-board snack bar (I'm not sure it's quite worthy of the term buffet) was quite a decent ham, cheese and salad sandwich for me, and sausage rolls for the kids, as we watched the countryside pass by."

eating house  footstool  

buffeted  buffeting  

hit  strike  

A  A.  Bay  Bombay  Bua  

bookcase  bullettrain  cafe  cupboard  dessert  

abuse  adversity  affliction  agonize  ambo  

buffeted  buffeting  buffets  buffetted