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buffty

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. An old and eccentric academic.
  2. A homosexual.
  3. Someone or something weak or effeminate.

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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