▪ I. buffy, a.1
(ˈbʌfɪ)
[f. buff n.2 and a. + -y1.]
1. Of a colour approaching to buff.
| 1842 Blackw. Mag. LI. 678 A buffy line across the horizon. 1850 Fraser's Mag. XLII. 188 Tail feathers with buffy white terminations. |
2. Physiol. Applied to blood having a ‘buff’ or buffy coat.
| 1782 S. F. Simmons in Med. Commun. I. 122 A coagulum.. of a firm buffy texture. 1827 Abernethy Surg. Wks. II. 11 The blood, on standing, appeared very buffy. 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 424/2 A buffy crust is..formed on the surface of the clot. |
buffy coat Physiol. A layer of a light buff colour forming the upper part of the clot of coagulated blood under certain conditions.
| 1800 Med. & Phys. Jrnl. III. 454 There being on the blood a slight buffy coat. 1845 Todd & Bowman Phys. Anat. 37 A yellowish white layer..called the buffy coat or inflammatory crust. 1874 Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat. 22 This layer is fibrine separated from the red corpuscles, and is commonly termed the ‘buffy coat’. |
▪ II. buffy, a.2 slang.
(ˈbʌfɪ)
[Origin obscure.]
Intoxicated, ‘squiffy’.
| 1858–9 S. Brooks Gordian Knot (1860) viii. 57, I must have conducted myself with extreme propriety, and not as you did at the Clissolds', when you came in buffy. 1866 E. Yates Land at Last i. vi, Flexor was fine and buffy when he came home last night. 1924 A. Huxley Little Mexican 225 She did like boasting about the amount of champagne she could put away without getting buffy. |