buffet
/ˈbʊfeɪ/ · noun
Meaning
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
- A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
- To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
- To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
- A low stool; a hassock.
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