buffle

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: büffle

English

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Etymology 1

[edit]
A buffle.

From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.

Noun

[edit]

buffle (plural buffles)

  1. (obsolete) A buffalo.
    • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, [], London: [] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:
      [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi
Derived terms
[edit]

Etymology 2

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

buffle (third-person singular simple present buffles, present participle buffling, simple past and past participle buffled)

  1. (intransitive) To puzzle; to baffle.
[edit]

References

[edit]

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Inherited from Old French bufle, from Italian bufalo, from Vulgar Latin *būfalus, variant form of Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos).

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)

  1. buffalo

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]