buffet – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of buffet

Noun: buffet
Sg.buffet
Pl.buffettes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • primus tortor. we shall teche hym, I wote / a new play of yoyll,
  • And hold hym full hote / frawrord, a stoyll
  • Go fetch vs!
  • ffroward. We, dote! / now els were it doyll
  • And vnneth;
  • ffor the wo that he shall dre
  • let hym knele on his kne.
  • Secundus tortor. And so shall he for me;
  • Go fetch vs a light buffit. (First torturer: We shall teach him, I say, a new Christmas-time game, and treat him very hotly—Froward, go fetch us a stool!
  • Froward: Whoa! Fool! We wouldn't want this to be painful and difficult. For the sake of the pain that he shall dread, let him kneel.
  • Second torturer: And he shall [dread it] on my account. Go fetch us a light stool.) [15th c., “Coliphizacio [The Buffeting]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 239:]

Nouns inflected like buffet

ketil-hat, tercelet, cresset, crochet, gauntelet, launcet, popet, cat, pot, wit, roget, halibut, hastelet, mawmet, basket, buffet, cornet, tablet, fret, gnat, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bufet, buffet, diminutive of buffe.

Verbs referencing "buffet"

English Nouns buffet.

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