Etymology

blind man's buff

Today it means: A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to catch the other players. Full definition →

Old French buffe
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frombuffe“blow”
  2. English todayblind man's buff

From blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchbuffe all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.