baffie

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/ˈbæfi/

noun

A slipper, or a worn, comfortable shoe.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounbaffie (plural baffies)

plural baffies · alternative baffy

  1. alternativegolfAlternative form of baffy.
  2. ScotlandA slipper, or a worn, comfortable shoe.

    […] put him oot the door in his semmit an his baffies.

    2001, Janet Paisley, Not for Glory, Canongate, →ISBN, page 241
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    […]; the inhabitants' benign indifference to idiosyncratic behavior (the way, for example, that you could walk down the street in nothing but a pair of baffies with a budgerigar on your head and no-one would think twice of it).

    2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird, Macmillan, published 2001, →ISBN, page 40

    “You can’t be walking about in the muck with naught but your skirts and baffies. […]” ¶ By process of elimination I narrowed the word baffies to mean some sort of footwear.

    2003, Katie MacAlister, Men in Kilts, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 87

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APA

baffie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baffie

MLA

“baffie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baffie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “baffie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/baffie.

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