bufferdom

The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.

Noun

  1. The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man.
    • Sometime in the late autumn of 1977, I went to a book party that was held in the Rosebery Room of the House of Lords. Why I went I can’t think – the volume was some piece of unreadable bufferdom extruded by Lord Butler...
    • Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported. - 2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New...
    • It would be tempting to see in Malcolm McLaren's final years the descent into amiable bufferdom of a once free spirit, and to conclude that the ---- Establishment always wins in the end. - 2010 April 11, William...

Origin

From buffer + -dom.