buffalo
See also: Buffalo
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buffalo (plural buffaloes or buffalos or buffalo)
- An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
- Synonym: (obsolete) buffle
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- "It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die."
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- And on this board were frightful swords and knives that are made in a great cavern by swinking demons out of white flames that they fix in the horns of buffalos and stags that there abound marvellously.
- 1974, Gil Scott-Heron, “Winter in America”, in Winter in America:
- From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims / And to the buffaloes who once ruled the plain / Like the vultures / Circling beneath the dark clouds / Looking for the rain / Well, they've been looking for the rain
- 2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India[1], 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 11 November 2022, page 72:
- The feuds between Namsang and Borduria continued. In 1875-76 the dispute between the Namsang and Borduria arose about the buffaloes which were carried off by Borduria people from Namsang areas.
- A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
- Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
- The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
- (US slang) A nickel.
- (slang, US, historical) A looter during the Civil War.
- (slang, derogatory) A large or stupid person.
- (slang, derogatory) An obese person, usually a woman.
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) A black male.
- Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).
Derived terms
[edit]- African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
- American buffalo
- antibuffalo
- atomic buffalo turd
- beefalo
- Bremelo
- buffalo bean
- buffalo-berry
- buffaloberry, buffalo berry (Shepherdia spp.)
- buffalo bird
- buffalo bug (Dermestidae spp.)
- buffalo-bur
- buffalo bur, buffalo burr
- buffaloburger
- buffalo-bur nightshade
- buffalo-burr
- buffalo chip
- Buffalo City
- buffalo clover
- Buffalo County
- buffalo fly (Haematobia exigua)
- Buffalo Gap
- buffalo gnat (Simuliidae)
- buffalo grass
- Buffalo Grove
- buffalo hump
- buffalo jump
- buffalopox
- Buffalo River
- buffalo robe
- buffalo sauce
- buffalo-skin
- buffalo soldier
- buffalo thorn (Ziziphus mucronata)
- Buffalo Trace
- buffalo weaver (Bubalornis, Dinemellia)
- buffalo wing
- buffalo worm (Alphitobius diaperinus)
- buffalypso
- buffarilla
- Cape buffalo
- catalo
- cattalo
- cattelo
- North American buffalo
- plains buffalo
- she-buffalo
- water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
- water buffalo calf
- wood buffalo
- Wood Buffalo
- yakalo
Translations
[edit]bovid of the Bubalina subtribe
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bison — see bison
robe
fish
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Translations to be checked
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]buffalo (third-person singular simple present buffaloes, present participle buffaloing, simple past and past participle buffaloed)
- (transitive) To hunt buffalo.
- (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
- Synonyms: cow; see also Thesaurus:intimidate
- 1983, Sam Shepard, Fool for Love, San Francisco: City Lights Books, page 20:
- I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.
- 1998, John Updike, Bech At Bay, Random House, →ISBN, page 287:
- He was speaking to an indifferent audience of pale polite faces, in an overheated space on the Northern edge of Europe, a subcontinent whose natives for a few passing centuries had bullied and buffaloed the rest of the world.
- 2006, William Zinsser, On Writing Well:
- If nonfiction is where you do your best writing, or your best teaching of writing, don't be buffaloed into the idea that it's an inferior species.
- (archaic, transitive) To pistol-whip.
- 1931, Stuart N. Lake, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, New York: Houghton Mifflin, page 173:
- Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.
Translations
[edit]hunt buffalo
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outwit, confuse
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References
[edit]- “buffalo”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “buffalo n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “buffalo n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
- “buffalo v.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English buffalo.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbufːɑlo/, [ˈbufːɑ̝lo̞]
- Rhymes: -ufːɑlo
- Syllabification(key): buf‧fa‧lo
- Hyphenation(key): buf‧fa‧lo
Noun
[edit]buffalo
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of buffalo (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | buffalo | buffalot | |
| genitive | buffalon | buffalojen buffaloiden buffaloitten | |
| partitive | buffaloa | buffaloja buffaloita | |
| illative | buffaloon | buffaloihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | buffalo | buffalot | |
| accusative | nom. | buffalo | buffalot |
| gen. | buffalon | ||
| genitive | buffalon | buffalojen buffaloiden buffaloitten | |
| partitive | buffaloa | buffaloja buffaloita | |
| inessive | buffalossa | buffaloissa | |
| elative | buffalosta | buffaloista | |
| illative | buffaloon | buffaloihin | |
| adessive | buffalolla | buffaloilla | |
| ablative | buffalolta | buffaloilta | |
| allative | buffalolle | buffaloille | |
| essive | buffalona | buffaloina | |
| translative | buffaloksi | buffaloiksi | |
| abessive | buffalotta | buffaloitta | |
| instructive | — | buffaloin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
[edit]Northern Sami
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English buffalo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]buffalo
- buffalo (Asian or African)
Inflection
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading
[edit]- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
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