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/bəfˈeɪɪŋ/ /bˈəfətɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Buffeting n.

1.

A striking with the hand.

2.

A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity. "He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but... fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm."

verb

Buffet v. t. (past & past part. buffeted; pres. part. buffeting)

1.

To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap. "They spit in his face and buffeted him."

2.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows. "The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores." "You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world."

3.

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buffet v. i.

1.

To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend. "If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher."

2.

To make one's way by blows or struggling. "Strove to buffet to land in vain."

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Etymology of 'Buffeting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Buffeting" Quotes from Famous Books

... Meanwhile Ann's gaze was riveted enviously on Forrester's sleek red head as it appeared and disappeared with the rise and fall of the swelling sea. He looked as if he were thoroughly enjoying the buffeting he ...

— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

... and when the coach drove off, which it did at last without him, the last thing visible to the outsides was the figure of Mr. Crow,—whose hat, minus the crown, had been driven over his head down upon his neck, where it remained like a dress cravat,—buffeting a mob of ragged vagabonds who had so completely metamorphosed the unfortunate man with mud and bruises that a committee of the grand lodge might actually have ...

— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... still staring at him. Her terror was, if possible, intensified. Suddenly a great pity for her rose up in his heart. All his love was stirred to the almost limitless depths of his big heart. How he loved this woman! How he longed to take her to his heart, and shelter her from all the cruel buffeting of a harsh life! How he would fight for her, strive for her, work for her—and now? He thought of the brand that had fallen upon him, and he thought of that something which her sudden terrified glance had stirred ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

... St. Martinville, Breaux Bridge, Grand Coteau, and Opelousas, and down once more across the prairies of Vermilion, the marshes about Cote Blanche Bay, and the islands in the Gulf, it came bounding, screaming, and buffeting. And all the way across that open sweep from Mermentau to Cote Gelee it was tearing the rain to mist and freezing it wherever it fell, only lulling and warming a little about Joseph Jefferson's Island, as if that prank were too mean a trick to play ...

— Bonaventure - A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana • George Washington Cable

... it," and went out, slamming the door behind her. But a tear lay on the edge of her down-curved lashes, threatening to ricochet down her smoothly powdered cheek. She winked it in again. The station swarm was close to her, jostling, kicking her ankles in passing, buffeting. ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

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