Buffet

Noun

 * 1) A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
 * 2) Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
 * 3) A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
 * 4) A low stool; a hassock.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.

Adjectives for Buffet
affordable; all you can eat; all day; ala carte; yummy;

Synonyms for Buffet

 * (food): buffet meal, smorgasbord
 * (blow): blow, collision (by any solid object), cuff (with the hand)

Thesaurus
abuse, agonize, ambo, antagonize, automat, bafflement, balk, bang, bar, bash, baste, bastinado, batter, battle, beanery, beat, beat against, beat up against, belabor, belt, bench, betrayed hope, birch, bistro, blasted expectation, blighted hope, blip, blow, board, box, box the ears, breast the wave, bruise, buck, buffet the waves, bung, bung up, buvette, cafe, cafeteria, cane, canteen, cantina, chop, chophouse, chuck wagon, close with, clout, club, coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffeeroom, combat, comedown, compete with, contend, contend against, contest, contuse, cookhouse, cookshack, cookshop, counter, cowhide, cruel disappointment, cudgel, cuff, cut, dash, dashed hope, defeat, desk, diner, dining hall, dining room, disappointment, discomfiture, disillusionment, dissatisfaction, do violence to, do wrong by, do wrong to, dog wagon, drive-in, drive-in restaurant, drub, eatery, eating house, escritoire, failure, fallen countenance, fast-food chain, fiasco, fight, fight against, fizzle, flagellate, flail, flap, flog, foiling, forlorn hope, frustration, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, grapple with, grill, grillroom, grunt and sweat, hamburger stand, hammer, hash house, hashery, hassle, hope deferred, horsewhip, hot-dog stand, huff and puff, ill-treat, ill-use, injure, join battle with, kitchen, knock, knock about, knout, labor against, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lay on, lectern, letdown, lunch counter, lunch wagon, luncheonette, lunchroom, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mess hall, militate against, mirage, mishandle, mistreat, molest, offer resistance, outrage, paste, patter, pelt, pistol-whip, pizzeria, poke, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, punch, quick-lunch counter, rap, rawhide, reluct, reluctate, restaurant, rival, rough, rough up, sandwich shop, savage, scourge, scuffle, secretaire, secretary, setback, slap, slap the face, sledgehammer, smack, smite, smorgasbord, snack bar, sock, sore disappointment, spank, stand, stem the tide, strap, strike, stripe, strive, strive against, struggle, struggle against, swinge, switch, table, take on, tantalization, tavern, tearoom, tease, thrash, thresh, thump, token punishment, trattoria, trounce, truncheon, tussle, vie with, wallop, whack, whale, whip, whomp, whop, workbench, wrestle, writing table

Etymology

 * , of unknown origin; compare Italian buffetto; perhaps related to the noun under Etymology 3
 * 1) Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe; see buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen, to jostle, to hustle
 * 2) Old French, of unknown origin.