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English
Noun
buffty (plural buffties)
- (slang) An old and eccentric academic.
1992, The Architects' Journal - Volume 195, Issues 18-25, page 57:I suspect there is a hidden strata of young architectural talent which dismisses the RSA as a remote and fusty collection of old buffties.
2006, The Structural Engineer:And I may add old buffties like me who have forgotten some of it and could do with the reminding!
2010, James Livingston, David Livingston, Blood over Water, →ISBN, page 25:'Jolly good, Oxford!' shouts one old buffty.
- (Scotland, slang, derogatory) A homosexual.
1999 April 21, Hail mail, “IMPORTANT!!”, in alt.sports.soccer.celtic (Usenet):You know who I am buffty.
1999 July 9, Hesitator, “Action Q2”, in uk.games.computer.quake2 (Usenet):Are ye calling me a buffty?
1999 November 23, David Jenkins, “The best players are ?”, in alt.games.half-life.tfclassic (Usenet):must be a closet buffty then
2001 February 15, Andy W, “Big numptie”, in uk.sport.football.scottish (Usenet):"He is Awfull, but I like him" in buffty voice
- (Scotland, slang, by extension) Someone or something weak or effeminate.
2001 May 29, SadKate, “Swifts”, in alt.usenet.legends.duab (Usenet):And it's not like she's a buffty either. She kicked the shit out of a moggy twice her size last night.