noun
Word Origin early 17th century: from buff ‘a blow’, from Old French bufe (see buffet2).
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Children's game
Blind man's buff or blind man's bluff is a variant of tag in which the player who is "It" is blindfolded. The traditional name of the game is "blind man's buff", where the word buff is used in its older sense of a small push. Wikipedia