{"id":44402,"date":"2026-04-26T11:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44402"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:34:46","slug":"word-of-the-day-1109","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/26\/word-of-the-day-1109\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Buff<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>noun, informal<\/em><br \/>\na person who knows a lot about and is very interested in a particular subject:<br \/>\n<em>a computer\/opera\/film buff<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>adjective<br \/>\n<\/em>of a pale, yellowish-brown colour:<br \/>\n<em>a buff envelope<br \/>\n<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>adjective<\/em><br \/>\nIf a man is buff, he has a body that is a good shape, and looks as if he has done a lot of exercise:<br \/>\n<em>He was spotted on the beach looking extremely buff.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>verb<\/em><br \/>\nTo rub an object made of metal, wood, or leather in order to make it shine, using a soft, dry cloth<\/li>\n<li>[etc]\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/buff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if younger readers know this meaning of <em>buff<\/em>, seeing as I hadn&#8217;t run across it myself in decades. Noted in this Stephen Colbert \/ Pete Buttigieg half-interview.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America&#039;s Role In The World Is Diminished Under Donald Trump - Pete Buttigieg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0fzjKQdsCWc?start=106&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pete continues to impress as a guest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buff: noun, informal a person who knows a lot about and is very interested in a particular subject: a computer\/opera\/film buff adjective of a pale, yellowish-brown colour: a buff envelope adjective If a man is buff, he has a body that is a good shape, and looks as if he \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/04\/26\/word-of-the-day-1109\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44403,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44402\/revisions\/44403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}