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Uncommonbuffet
The correct spelling is buffet.
How to pronounce buffet
/ˈbʊfeɪ/
nounIPA: /ˈbʊfeɪ/
Say it like: Buf-fet
The correct spelling is buffet. A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought. For example: "to buffet the billows"
Usage Examples
“to buffet the billows”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- 2.Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- 3.A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
- 4.A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- 5.A low stool; a hassock.
verb
- 1.To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
- 2.To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- 3.To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
- 4.To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
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