Meanings
- uncountableSynonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).
Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories.
1973, Scientific American, volume 228, page 431 more example
My auto buffhood dates from that moment. For the rest of the week I hung around the fringes of the race crowd like kids used to around Babe Ruth.
1961, Esquire, volume 56, numbers 4-6, page 62Synonyms: buffery
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”).
Origin
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buffhood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/buffhood
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