英语词汇buff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

buff; in the buff. So many buffalo hides were taken in the 19th century that buff coats made of them became very fash- ionable, the undyed yellowish coats giving us the word buff; the verb buff, “to polish,” entered the language from the strips of buffalo hide that were used to bring metals like bronze to a high polish. Even the word buff for an avid devotee of some ac- tivity or subject owes its life to buffalo. Buffalo robes were the winter gear of firemen in the middle of the 19th century. The amateur firefighters who rushed to blazes emulated the profes- sionals by wearing buffcoats made of buffalo skins and were called buffs as a result. The expression in the buff, “in the nude,” derives from the soft yellow buff skins made from buffalo hides, which looked something like bare human skin tanned by the sun. Buff is also one of the most unusual acronym nicknames. According to Frederick Forsyth in The Fist of God (1993): “The B-52 Stratofortress [bomber] is not called the Buff because it is painted a tan or dun-brown color. The word is not even a deri- vation of the first two syllables of its number—Bee-Fifty-two. It just stands for Big Ugly Fat Fucker.” Buffs dropped 40 percent of the entire bomb tonnage during the Gulf War. Each plane can carry 51 750-pound bombs.

词汇	buff
词源	buff; in the buff. So many buffalo hides were taken in the 19th century that buff coats made of them became very fash- ionable, the undyed yellowish coats giving us the word buff; the verb buff, “to polish,” entered the language from the strips of buffalo hide that were used to bring metals like bronze to a high polish. Even the word buff for an avid devotee of some ac- tivity or subject owes its life to buffalo. Buffalo robes were the winter gear of firemen in the middle of the 19th century. The amateur firefighters who rushed to blazes emulated the profes- sionals by wearing buffcoats made of buffalo skins and were called buffs as a result. The expression in the buff, “in the nude,” derives from the soft yellow buff skins made from buffalo hides, which looked something like bare human skin tanned by the sun. Buff is also one of the most unusual acronym nicknames. According to Frederick Forsyth in The Fist of God (1993): “The B-52 Stratofortress [bomber] is not called the Buff because it is painted a tan or dun-brown color. The word is not even a deri- vation of the first two syllables of its number—Bee-Fifty-two. It just stands for Big Ugly Fat Fucker.” Buffs dropped 40 percent of the entire bomb tonnage during the Gulf War. Each plane can carry 51 750-pound bombs.
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