buffet

nom

1. 1

   A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

   They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

2. 2

   Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

   We'll be serving supper buffet style.

   "We got a big buffet coming up soon. Bacon, eggs, fresh fruit you wouldn't believe."

3. 3

   A small low stool; a hassock.

nom

1. 1

   A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

   On his cheek a buffet fell.

   October 30, 1795, Edmund Burke, letter to Lord Auckland those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay

   Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.

2. 2

   The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.

verbe

1. 1

   To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

   They spit in his face and buffeted him.

2. 2

   figuréTo aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

   Is Burns obscure because he was gay and therefore ignorable until the Gay Rights Movement began? Or does he largely deserve his neglect? An answer requires that one examine not only Burns' books, but also the critical environment in which he was much buffeted — which, we are told, drove him to an early grave.

3. 3

   To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

   to buffet the billows

   The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.

   [...] I buffetted heat and mosquetoes, and got the hay all up [...]

   You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world—

4. 4

   To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

5. 5

   To struggle, contend; also in figurative or extended use: to move as if driven by force.

   Again the chirpy tone did nothing to pacify the woman holding on to her ankles. Soon Zoe was buffeting back and forward through the hole.

Formes

pluriel

buffets

passé

buffeted, buffetted

participe passé

buffeted, buffetted

participe présent

buffeting, buffetting

3ᵉ personne du singulier

buffets