"bufferdom" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From buffer + -dom.",
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          "ref": "1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:",
          "text": "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 […].",
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        {
          "ref": "2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New Statesman:",
          "text": "Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010 April 11, William Langley, The Telegraph:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man."
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        "(UK) The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man."
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  "etymology_text": "From buffer + -dom.",
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          "ref": "1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:",
          "text": "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 […].",
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          "ref": "2002 August 5, Mary Riddell, The New Statesman:",
          "text": "Her predecessors, Stephen Tumim and David Ramsbotham, pillars of establishment bufferdom with impeccable social consciences, had enraged the Home Secretaries to whom they reported.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 April 11, William Langley, The Telegraph:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man."
      ],
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        "(UK) The state of being an ‘old buffer’, or a conservative, somewhat foolish old man."
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