buffhood

English

Etymology

buff +‎ -hood

Noun

buffhood (uncountable)

1. Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”)
   • 1973, Scientific American, volume 228, page 43:

     Well beyond buffhood is the incumbent partisan of astronomy's cause at the Kodak Research Laboratories.

   • 1961, Esquire, volume 56, numbers 4-6, page 62:

     My auto buffhood dates from that moment. For the rest of the week I hung around the fringes of the race crowd like kids used to around Babe Ruth.