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- PUNCHER
One who, or that which, punches. - PUNCHY
Short and thick, or fat. - BUFFETER
One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson. - 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. - SMACK
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. - HUSTLE
To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room. Macaulay. (more info) Etym: - PUNCHEON
A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to - BUFFETING
1. A striking with the hand. 2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt. - PUNCHIN
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A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch - 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 - SMACKING
A sharp, quick noise; a smack. Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden. - PRICKPUNCH
A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
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