different between buff vs sandwich

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

From buffe (“leather”), from Middle French buffle (“buffalo”).

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

1. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.
   • c. 1589, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, Scene 2,^[1]

     […] he’s in a a suit of buff […]

2. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
3. A brownish yellow colour.
   • 1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 10, lines 307-308, p. 203,^[2]

     […] a Visage rough,

     Deform’d, Unfeatur’d, and a Skin of Buff.

   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest, Chapter 24,^[3]

     His face changed from tan to buff.

4. A military coat made of buff leather.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, [Act IV, scene ii]:

     A diuell in an euerla?ting garment hath him ; / On who?e hard heart is button’d vp with ?teele : / A Feind, a Fairie, pittile??e and ruffe : / A Wolfe, nay wor?e, a fellow all in buffe […]

5. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.

   He’s a real history buff. He knows everything there is to know about the civil war.

6. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.

   I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

7. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
8. (colloquial) The bare skin.

   to strip to the buff

   • 1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English, London: Henry G. Bohn, p. 265,^[4]

     To be in buff, is equivalent to being naked.

9. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
10. A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
    • 2014, “Aldergrove’s 856 gang busted, $400,000 in drugs seized,” CBC News, 30 July, 2014,^[5]

      Police say this 20 ton hydraulic jack was used to press mixtures of cocaine and “buff” into brick.

Derived terms

• in the buff
• buffery
• buffhood
• buffism

Synonyms

• (an enthusiast about a particular subject): aficionado
• (video games): revamp

Antonyms

• (video games): debuff, nerf

Translations

Adjective

buff (comparative buffer or more buff, superlative buffest or most buff)

1. Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
2. (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)

   The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.

   • 1994, Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture, page 155:

     The appearance of logic often derives from faulty syllogisms such as Sgt. Koon's conclusion that King was an ex-con because he was "buffed out" (heavily muscled). The thinking is: "ex-cons are often buffed out; this man is buffed out; therefore, this man is an ex-con."

3. (slang) Physically attractive.

Derived terms

• buff-tip moth
• buffly
• buffster

Translations

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

1. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.

2. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.

3. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.

Derived terms

• buff out
• buff up
• buff wheel

Synonyms

• (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing): wax, shine, polish, furbish, burnish

Antonyms

• (video games): debuff, nerf

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Old French bufer (“to cuff, buffet”). See buffet (“a blow”).

Verb

buff (third-person singular simple present buffs, present participle buffing, simple past and past participle buffed)

1. To strike.

Noun

buff (plural buffs)

1. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.

Derived terms

• blind man's buff

Etymology 3

Clipping of buffalo.

Noun

buff (countable and uncountable, plural buffs)

1. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
   • 2006, Bradley Mayhew, Joe Bindloss, Stan Armington, Nepal

     […] diced buff (buffalo) meat, usually heavily spiced […]

English

Etymology

Named after its supposed inventor, the Earl of Sandwich (see Sandwich).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sæn(d)w?d??/, /?sæn(d)w?t??/, /?sæmw?d??/, /?sæ?w?d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sæn?(d)w?t??/, /?sæm?w?t??/, /?sæm??t??/, /?sæ??w?t??/
• Homophone: SDCH

Noun

sandwich (plural sandwiches or sandwichs)

1. A dish or foodstuff where two or more slices of bread serve as the wrapper or container of some other food.
   • 2002, Serena Carrington, Avalon, Writers Club Press, p.92:

     He laid out a linen tablecloth and a few sandwichs from some bread, dressing, and beef.

   • 2012, Allie McNeil, Watergate Summer, AuthorHouse, p.160:

     And the only "care" I could offer was egg sandwichs and Lilly's unfaltering attention.

2. (by extension) Any combination formed by layering one type of material between two layers of some other material.
3. (Britain) A layer cake or sandwich cake.

Usage notes

• In Ireland and the UK, sandwich often presupposes sliced bread, in which case similar foods made with other types of bread are called "filled roll", "filled bap", etc.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:sandwich

Hyponyms

• (closed, ground beef, on a bun): hamburger, burger
• (closed, other meats, on a bun): -burger, hot dog
• (closed, ground beef, on bread): patty melt

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

Verb

sandwich (third-person singular simple present sandwiches, present participle sandwiching, simple past and past participle sandwiched)

1. To place one item between two other, usually flat, items
2. (figuratively) To put or set something between two others, in time.
3. (sex) To double penetrate

Translations

Adjective

sandwich (not comparable)

1. (US) Of a meal or serving size that is smaller than a dinner.

Usage notes

• The adjective sense is used primarily by restaurants specializing in barbecue, and does not imply that the meal includes an actual sandwich.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sanvitsj/, [?san??id??], [?san?wid??], [?san??id?s]

Noun

sandwich c (singular definite sandwichen, plural indefinite sandwich or sandwicher)

1. sandwich

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• “sandwich” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich, after the Earl of Sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nd.??t?/
• Hyphenation: sand?wich

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches, diminutive sandwichje n)

1. sandwich

Usage notes

• A sandwich is more commonly called a boterham (which may also denote a single slice of bread) or a broodje (which may also denote a bun or roll) in Dutch.

Derived terms

• sandwichman

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.dwi?/, /s??.dwit?/

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwichs or sandwiches)

1. sandwich (food)

Usage notes

• French does not follow the English rule of adding es to nouns ending in the sound /t?/. Since the final /s/ is not pronounced in the plural, there is no difficulty in pronouncing the plural formed by adding s rather than es.

Derived terms

• sandwicherie
• croissandwich
• prendre en sandwich

Further reading

• “sandwich” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sandwich.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?ndwit?/

Noun

sandwich m (invariable)

1. sandwich

Derived terms

• sandwicheria f

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English sandwich

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwicher, definite plural sandwichene)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “sandwich” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English sandwich, supposedly named for its inventor, the Earl of Sandwich.

Noun

sandwich m (definite singular sandwichen, indefinite plural sandwichar, definite plural sandwichane)

1. a sandwich

References

• “sandwich” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

sandwich m (plural sandwiches)

1. Misspelling of sándwich.