All buff synonyms
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B b noun buff
- devotee — Someone who is a devotee of a subject or activity is very enthusiastic about it.
- connoisseur — A connoisseur is someone who knows a lot about the arts, food, drink, or some other subject.
- freak — a fleck or streak of color.
- aficionado — If someone is an aficionado of something, they like it and know a lot about it.
- lover — Samuel, 1797–1868, Irish novelist, painter, and songwriter.
- fan — an enthusiastic devotee, follower, or admirer of a sport, pastime, celebrity, etc.: a baseball fan; a great fan of Charlie Chaplin.
- addict — An addict is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them.
- admirer — If you are an admirer of someone, you like and respect them or their work very much.
- fiend — Satan; the devil.
- votary — a person who is bound by solemn religious vows, as a monk or a nun.
- hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
- habitue — a frequent or habitual visitor to a place: a habitué of art galleries.
verb buff
- gloss — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
- glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
- burnish — To burnish the image of someone or something means to improve their image.
- brush — A brush is an object which has a large number of bristles or hairs fixed to it. You use brushes for painting, for cleaning things, and for tidying your hair.
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- pumice — Also called pumice stone. a porous or spongy form of volcanic glass, used as an abrasive.
- sandpaper — strong paper coated with a layer of sand or other abrasive, used for smoothing or polishing.
- shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
- rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
- smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
- furbish — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
adj buff
- lemon — the yellowish, acid fruit of a subtropical citrus tree, Citrus limon.
- straw — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- nude — naked or unclothed, as a person or the body.
- ecru — very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
- bare — If a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.
- tan — to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
- blonde — A woman who has blonde hair has pale-coloured hair. Blonde hair can be very light brown or light yellow. The form blond is used when describing men.
- canary — Canaries are small yellow birds which sing beautifully and are often kept as pets.
- ochre — to color or mark with ocher.
- tawny — of a dark yellowish or dull yellowish-brown color.
- yellowish — somewhat yellow; tinged with yellow; yellowy.