Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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BUFFET-STOOL, —STULE, BOUFIT STOOL, Bowfit steel, Buffy (-stool), n. “A stool with sides, in form of a square table with leaves, when these are folded down” (Sc. 1808 Jam.); “a pouf” (Kcb.1 1936); also simply buffet (Rxb. 1923 Watson W.-B.). Ags.2, Slg.3, Lnk.3 1935 give buffy (-stool). [′bʌfɪt —, ′bʌufɪt —, ′bʌfɪ̢ —]Sc. 1769 D. Herd Sc. Songs (1776) II. 229:
And she's fa'n o'er the buffet-stool, And brake her rumple-bane.Abd. 1909 J.T. Jeannie Jaffray 238:
He cud mak' a pot lid or a bowfit steel.Ags. 1821 J. Ross Peep at Parnassus 16:
The elbow-chair black Belzie gat, Faustus the boufit stool.Per. 1857 J. Stewart in Harp of Perthshire (ed. R. Ford 1893) 162:
I've sat wi' neebor youngster loons Upon her buffet stule.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie I. i.:
The furniture of her cottage . . . consisted of one venerable elbow-chair . . . two buffet-stools, one a little larger than the other, . . . together with a scanty providing of bedding.
