a meal set out on tables or a sideboard for diners to help themselves

a counter for refreshments

chiefly Brit a self-service restaurant or snack bar

Brit a buffet car

/ʹboofay, ʹbufit/ a sideboard or cupboard often used for the display of tableware

to strike (something) repeatedly; to batter

The waves buffeted the shore

to treat (somebody) roughly or unpleasantly

He had been buffeted by life

to strike (somebody) sharply, esp with the hand

= buffeting

dated a blow, esp with the hand

I began instead to rain kicks and buffets on the door — Stevenson