baff

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How could you drown your own children like that I were divin’ them a baff,” Betsy explained Betsy was a little, round butterball of a girl with great brown eyes all tangled up in eyelashes and a little pink rosebud of a mouth, folded over two rows of mice-teeth.

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  1. To bark; yelp.
  2. To say neither baff nor buff to say nothing.
  3. To beat; strike; specifically, in the game of golf, to hit the ground with the club when striking at the ball. [Scots.]
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  1. from Middle English baffen = D. and Low German baffen = Middle High German baffen, beffen, German baffen, bäfzen = Danish bjæffe = Swedish bjebba, bark; apparently imitative. Cf. dial. buff, bark, and yaff.
  2. Scots, also beff. Cf. Old French baffe, a blow with the back of the hand: see baffle.
  3. Scots: see the verb.
  4. Prob. a form of bauch.
 

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