buffeting Definition

buffet²
noun

1. A blow with the hand or fist.
2. A stroke or blow, especially a heavy or repeated one.

Example: A sudden buffet of wind
Example: reeling from the buffets that fate had dealt her

verb buffeted, buffeting

1. To strike or knock someone or something with the hand or fist.

Thesaurus: bang, batter, beat, box, clobber, cuff, hit, knock, pound, pummel, strike, wallop.
2. To knock someone or something about; to batter them or it repeatedly.

Example: a ship buffeted by the waves

Derivative: buffeting

Repeated knocks or blows.

Irregular oscillation of any part of an aircraft, caused and maintained by an eddying wake from some other part.

Etymology: 13c: from French buffe a blow.