A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Buffet, Buffat, n. [ME. buffet (a 1225), boffat, bofet, etc., OF. buffet, bouffet.] A blow or buffet.a1400 Leg. S. xlii. 122.
Thane in wryth Quyncyane Bad gef hire buffetis mony ane Ib. xlvi. 201.
Sum [of them] mony sar buffet One his face ful sadly set c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 78.
The golk, the gormaw, and the gled, Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled Ib. lxxii. 21.
Thai gaif him mony buffat sair 1535 Stewart 4762.
With buffatis braid and mony bitter blaw a1540 Freiris Berw. 139 (M).
Sche … gaif it buffatis tua Apon the cheik 1570 Sat. P. xxii. 62.
I am hird Thé to award from buffettis
