beige vs buff

beige

noun
  • Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. 

  • A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

adj
  • Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

  • Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia. 

buff

noun
  • Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals. 

  • Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits. 

  • A military coat made of buff leather. 

  • A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo. 

  • The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. 

  • Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition. 

  • A brownish yellow colour. 

  • A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing. 

  • A person who is very interested in a particular subject. 

  • An effect that makes a character or item stronger. 

  • The bare skin. 

adj
  • Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow. 

  • Physically attractive. 

  • Unusually muscular. 

verb
  • To strike. 

  • To polish and make shiny by rubbing. 

  • To make a character or an item stronger. 

  • To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. 

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