Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being a buff or enthusiast; a keen interest in something; fandom.
What distinguishes a film buff from someone who simply loves going to the movies? Is buffery a hobby, a vocation, a stage of development or a pathology?
1979, Take One, volume 7, page 351 more example
The first phase was a sudden fashion among the film buffs, some of whom latched on to the picture with the enthusiasm that suggests that film buffery, that beguiling beacon of Sixties taste, has slid into some really desperate final phase.
2013, Gunnar Hansen, Chain Saw Confidential
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buffery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buffery
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