Word Meanings - BUFFET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns

Additional info about word: BUFFET

perh. fr. the same source as E. buffet a blow, the root meaning to 1. A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope. 2. A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUFFET)

• Baste
• Buffet
• cudgel
• pound
• beat
• Cudgel Pound
• bruise
• buffet
• batter
• Cuff Slap
• box
• smack
• punch
• pummel
• hustle
• Smite
• Strike
• chastise
• blast
• afflict
• kill
• slay
• punish
• surprise
• captivate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BUFFET)

• Restore
• expand
• swell
• Stroke
• pat
• clap
• tickle

Related words: (words related to BUFFET)

• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• BRUISEWORT
  A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• PUNCHER
  One who, or that which, punches.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• BASTE
  To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. 3. To mark with tar, as sheep. (more info) 1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel. One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• CHASTISER
  One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• PUNCHY
  Short and thick, or fat.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• TICKLE
  to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• PUNCHINELLO
  A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.