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Meanings of old buffer in English

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Usage of old buffer in English
1
Indomitable old buffer; and never fussy like the rest of them!
Five Tales
2
He is a trifle peppery and impulsive, but quite an agreeable, genial old buffer.
The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance
3
He's not a bad old buffer himself, but they hate his wife like poison.
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
4
But all the same he was "a very entertaining old buffer."
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
5
Don't know how it beat me down, but it served as a fine old buffer.
The Outdoor Chums; Or, The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera...
6
The old buffer will come maudling once more, and we'll bowl him off his pins!
Denzil Quarrier
7
Thank you for dancing with an old buffer.
The Sowers
8
He is a decent old buffer, really, and he was evidently impressed with what I said--
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
9
He seems to be an understanding old buffer.'
The Pariah
10
After all, this master of his was an old buffer, who hadn't much left in him!
The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. / The Man Of Property
11
I know you will like mine much better-thatold buffer skating into a hole in the ice.
Beechcroft at Rockstone
12
I think he's the grandest old buffer out, and I'm awfully glad that I've dined with him.
The Way We Live Now
13
A rough old buffer, isn't he?'
A Changed Man, and Other Tales
14
I found that out from the porter, though the blessed old buffer can't speak anything but his French gibberish.
The Lovels of Arden
15
Nick's rejoinder of "Hullo, you old buffer!"
The Way of an Eagle
16
I can help you, dear, and you can help me, of course; I'm a dreadful old buffer in many ways.
The Captives
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