Plural of baffy; a type of golf club with a short shaft and steep face, used for hitting high shots.
From 'baff' (golf terminology) plus the diminutive suffix '-ie' or '-y,' forming a nickname for this specialized club.
Golf clubs used to have wonderful names like 'baffy,' 'mashie,' and 'niblick'—today we just call them by numbers, but these old names show how golf inherited a rich vocabulary from Scots that painted pictures of what the club did!
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