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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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hammer
English
Etymology
From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros (compare Sanskrit ????? (a?mará, “stony”)), itself a derivation from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
For *h?é?m? (“stone”), compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Latvian akmens, Russian ?????? (kamen?), Serbo-Croatian kam?n, Albanian kmesë (“sickle”), Ancient Greek ????? (ákm?n, “meteor rock, anvil”), Avestan ????????????????????? (namsa), Sanskrit ?????? (á?man)) (root *h?e?- (“sharp”)).
(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?(?)/
- Rhymes: -æm?(r)
- (US) IPA(key): /?hæ.m?/
Noun
hammer (plural hammers)
- A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
- The act of using a hammer to hit something.
- A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
- (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
- (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
- (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
- (curling) The last stone in an end.
- (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
- Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
- One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
- St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
- 1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations
- He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.
- (journalism) Short for hammer headline.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
- Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.
- 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mallet
Verb
hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)
- To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- hammered money
- (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
- (sports) To hit particularly hard.
- (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
- 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)
- (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
- I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
- (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
- We hammered them 5-0!
- (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]
- 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)
- (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
- (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
- (transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with
- Synonym: pound
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- hammer out
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ham?r/, [?h?m?]
Noun
hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)
- hammer
Inflection
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ham?/
- Homophone: Hammer
Verb
hammer
- (colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.
Usage notes
This contraction is common throughout central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria. It is only occasionally heard in northern Germany.
See also
- simmer
Middle English
Noun
hammer
- Alternative form of hamer
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Alternative forms
- hammar
Noun
hammer m (definite singular hammeren, indefinite plural hammere or hamrer, definite plural hammerne or hamrene)
- a hammer (tool)
Related terms
- hamre (verb)
Etymology 2
Noun
hammer m
- indefinite plural of ham
References
- “hammer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).
Noun
hammer c (plural hammers, diminutive hammerke)
- hammer
Further reading
- “hammer”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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