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buffet
English
Etymology 1
From French buffet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: bo?o'f?, b?'f?; IPA(key): /?b?fe?/, /?b?fe?/
- (US) enPR: b?f?', IPA(key): /b??fe?/
Noun
buffet (plural buffets)
- A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
- Synonyms: sideboard, smorgasbord, (obsolete) cupboard
- Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
- Synonyms: buffet meal, smorgasbord
- A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
- c. 15th century, author unknown, Wakefield Mystery Plays
- Go fetche us a light buffet.
- c. 15th century, author unknown, Wakefield Mystery Plays
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ????? (byuffe)
- ? Korean: ?? (bwipe)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English buffet, from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?f??t, IPA(key): /?b?f?t/
Noun
buffet (plural buffets)
- A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
- Synonyms: blow, (by any solid object) collision, (with the hand) cuff
- 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
Etymology 3
From Middle English buffeten, from Old French buffeter, from the noun (see above).
Pronunciation
- enPR: b?f??t, IPA(key): /?b?f?t/
Verb
buffet (third-person singular simple present buffets, present participle buffeting or buffetting, simple past and past participle buffeted or buffetted)
- (transitive) To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
- They spit in his face and buffeted him.
- (transitive, figuratively) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- Buffeted by criticism of his policy on Europe, battered by rebellion in the ranks over his bill to legalize same-sex marriage and wounded by the perception that he is supercilious, contemptuous and out of touch with mainstream Conservatism, Mr. Cameron earlier this week took the highly unusual step of sending a mass e-mail (or, as he called it, “a personal note”) to his party’s grass-roots members.
- 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, "British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
- To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
- to buffet the billows
- 1726, William Broome, epistle to Elijah Fenton
- The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
- 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. I:
- [...] I buffetted heat and mosquetoes, and got the hay all up [...]
- To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Translations
Etymology 4
Possibly from Middle French buffet (“side table”), of unknown origin.
Noun
buffet (plural buffets)
- A low stool; a hassock.
Further reading
- buffet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Finnish
Etymology
From French buffet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?byf?e?/, [?byf?e??]
- IPA(key): /?buf?et?i/, [?buf?e?t??i] (colloquial)
Noun
buffet
- buffet
Usage notes
The endings of the alternative, somewhat Finnicized forms buffetti and especially bufetti better fit the structure of Finnish.
Most Finns don't know that the letter t in the form "buffet" is silent (and that the letter u is pronounced [y]) and are not sure how to decline this form because Finnish nouns don't end in -t in the singular. They therefore consciously or unconsciously change the ending in the nominative to the more Finnish ending -tti in speaking, despite the fact that the French pronunciation (with [y] and silent t) is the only one listed in the Kielitoimiston sanakirja.
Most Finns have trouble pronouncing the sound [b] and many the sound [f], so the completely Finnicized form puhvetti is in fact widespread in speech even though the spelling buffetti is the most common.
Declension
French
Etymology
From Middle French bufet (1150), from Old French bufet, of uncertain origin; possibly a Celtic borrowing. Compare Scottish Gaelic biadh (“food, sustenance”), buadha (“valuable, precious”). Or, according to the Digitized Treasury of the French Language, from an imitative source akin to bouffer (“to eat (in excess)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by.f?/
Noun
buffet m (plural buffets)
- sideboard, dresser (a piece of furniture)
- buffet (food)
- (slang) belly
Synonyms
(sideboard):
- crédence
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “buffet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “buffet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
From French buffet.
Noun
buffet m (invariable)
- (furniture) sideboard
- Synonym: dispensa
- buffet, refreshment bar
Further reading
- buffet in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- buffé, buffe
Etymology
From French buffet.
Noun
buffet m (definite singular buffeten, indefinite plural buffeter, definite plural buffetene)
- sideboard or buffet (US) (dining room furniture containing table linen and services)
- buffet (counter or room where refreshments are sold)
- stående buffet - buffet (a meal which guests can serve themselves)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- buffé, buffe
Etymology
From French buffet.
Noun
buffet m (definite singular buffeten, indefinite plural buffetar, definite plural buffetane)
- sideboard or buffet (US) (dining room furniture containing table linen and services)
- buffet (a counter or room where refreshments are sold)
- ståande buffet - buffet (a meal which guests can serve themselves)
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- bufê, bufete
- bifê (proscribed)
Etymology
From French buffet.
Pronunciation
Noun
buffet m (plural buffets)
- ? (proscribed) buffet (food laid out so diners may serve themselves)
Further reading
- “buffet” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Alternative forms
- bufet
Etymology
From French buffet. Doublet of bufete.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu?fet/, [bu?fet?]
Noun
buffet m (plural buffets)
- buffet
Further reading
- “bufet” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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defeat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??fi?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.
Verb
defeat (third-person singular simple present defeats, present participle defeating, simple past and past participle defeated)
- (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
- 1879, Adolphus Ward, Chaucer, in English Men of Letters
- In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- (transitive) To nullify
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
- The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
Derived terms
- self-defeating
Synonyms
- vanquish, overcome, beat
Hyponyms
- conquer (defeat and annex); rout, crush, cream (decisive); shutout, zilch (sports, to defeat without permitting any opposing score)
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.
Noun
defeat (countable and uncountable, plural defeats)
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- 1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250:
- ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
- 2008, Gene Porter, A Daughter of the Land, volume 1 (?ISBN), page 17:
- She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.
- 1909, The Southern Reporter, page 250:
- (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, scene 1:
- and made defeat of her virginity
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, scene 1:
Antonyms
- victory
Translations
Anagrams
- feated
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