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Etymology edit

buff +‎ -hood

Noun edit

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.