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Bumper vs Buffet - What's the difference?

bumper | buffet |

As nouns the difference between bumper and buffet

is that bumper is (obsolete) a drinking vessel filled to the brim while buffet is buffet.

As an adjective bumper

is (colloquial) large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.

bumper

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
    • they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
  • * 1818 , Keats, :
  • *:Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—
  • *:O smile among the shades, for this is fame!
  • * 1859 , Dickens, A tale of two cities ,
    • Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers , looking at his friend.
  • (colloquial) Anything large or successful (now usually attributively).
  • (automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender
  • Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact
  • * The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
  • Someone or something that bumps.
  • (cricket) A bouncer.
  • (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
  • (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
  • (slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
    • We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.

    buffet

    English

    Etymology 1

    (wikipedia buffet) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
  • *
    • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet , and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
  • Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
  • A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
  • * Townely Myst
    • Go fetch us a light buffet .
    Synonyms
    * (food ): buffet meal, smorgasbord

    Etymology 2

    Old French '', diminutive of ''buffe'', cognate with Italian ''buffetto''. See buffer''', '''buffoon , and compare German ''puffen , to jostle, to hustle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • On his cheek a buffet fell.
  • * Burke
    • those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for years to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay
  • * {{quote-book, year=1960
    • , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VII and XIV , passage=Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.}}
    Synonyms
    * (blow''): blow, collision (''by any solid object''), cuff (''with the hand )

    Verb

  • To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvi. 67
    • They spit in his face and buffeted him.
  • (figurative) to aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.
  • * 2013 May 23, , " 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.
  • To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
    • to buffet the billows
  • * Broome
    • The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, / Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
  • * W. Black
    • You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world.
  • To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

    • Etymology 3

    Old French, of unknown origin.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low stool; a hassock.
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