Vocabulary : Budging to Bufferhead

Budging : of Budge
Budgy : Consisting of fur.
Budlet : A little bud springing from a parent bud.
Buff : A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner. ;; The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. ;; A military coat, made of buff leather. ;; The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a. ;; A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc. ;; The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. ;; Made of buff leather. ;; Of the color of buff. ;; To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5. ;; To strike. ;; A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff." ;; Firm; sturdy.
Buffa : The comic actress in an opera. ;; Comic, farcical.

Buffalo : A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. ;; A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo. ;; Any species of wild ox. ;; The bison of North America. ;; A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below. ;; The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
Buffaloes : of Buffalo
Buffel duck : A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
Buffer : An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car. ;; A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus. ;; One who polishes with a buff. ;; A wheel for buffing; a buff. ;; A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.
Bufferhead : The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

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