Crossword clues for baff
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baff \Baff\ (b[a^]f), n.
A blow; a stroke; thud. [Scot.]
--H. Miller.specif. (Golf), a stroke in which the sole of the club hits the ground and drives the ball aloft. [Scot. or Golf]
Baff \Baff\ (b[a^]f), v. t. & i. [Scot., prob. imitative; cf. G. baff, interj. imitating the sound of a shot.] To strike; to beat; to make a baff. [Scot. or Golf]
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (context intransitive archaic English) To bark; yelp. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To hit or strike, especially with something flat or soft. 2 (context golf English) To strike the ground with the bottom of the club when taking a stroke. Etymology 3
n. (context Geordie English) blank
Wikipedia
BAFF may refer to:
- B-cell activating factor
- British Armed Forces Federation
- Regina Baff, actress
Usage examples of "baff".
Ladyham and Mentle where Baff got killed by louts, and book for anywhere but France?
How had Baff, your average minnow, mortally offended a marina mogul to earn that doom?
I wanted to go and see where Baff got topped, not play her silly game.
Volt, ohm, ampere: might as well be biff, baff, boff, for all the sense it makes.
She secretly loved a tune, and the impossibility of ever confessing this without losing hold of Solstis, Baff, Birdigal, MacLewis, Clorane, and other English restoration composers, sometimes taxed to its limit a nature which had its Spartan side.
Bobby could smell sweat and hear the heavy biff and baff of gloves on flesh.
Poke and Lloyd would crash in on George, tie him and gag him, take the stuff, and maybe give him a couple of biffs and baffs for good measure.
Then Lloyd biffed George in the nose, bloodying it, and Poke baffed him in the eye, blacking it as per request.