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Noun

1. 1
   Synonym of buffery (“enthusiasm for a subject”). uncountable

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

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buffery

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

Etymology

From buff + -hood.

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