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Meaning of buffty | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. An old and eccentric academic.
    slang
  2. A homosexual.
    Scotland, derogatory, slang
  3. Someone or something weak or effeminate.
    Scotland, broadly, slang

Examples

“I suspect there is a hidden strata of young architectural talent which dismisses the RSA as a remote and fusty collection of old buffties.”
“And I may add old buffties like me who have forgotten some of it and could do with the reminding!”
“'Jolly good, Oxford!' shouts one old buffty.”
“You know who I am buffty.”
“Are ye calling me a buffty?”
“must be a closet buffty then”
“"He is Awfull, but I like him" in buffty voice”
“And it's not like she's a buffty either. She kicked the shit out of a moggy twice her size last night.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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