bufflehead

English

Male

Female

Wikispecies

Etymology

From buffle +‎ head.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌfəlhɛd/

Noun

bufflehead (plural buffleheads)

1. A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola.
2. (obsolete) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
   • 1694, unknown translation, Plautus

     What makes you stare so, bufflehead?

Synonyms

• (Bucephala albeola): woolhead

Translations

a duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola

• Breton: garv kilpenn gwenn
• Catalan: morell capblanc m
• Czech: hohol bělavý (cs) m
• Dutch: buffelkopeend
• Esperanto: grandkapa klangulo
• Finnish: pikkutelkkä (fi)
• French: garrot albéole m, petit garrot m
• German: Büffelkopfente f
• Hungarian: fehérfejű kerceréce
• Italian: quattrocchi minore m
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• Japanese: 姫羽白 (himehajiro), ヒメハジロ
• Nahuatl: āmanacocheh
• Navajo: ayánítsiiʼí
• Polish: gągołek (pl) m
• Portuguese: pato-de-touca-branca m
• Russian: ма́лый го́голь m (mályj gógolʹ)
• Spanish: porrón coronado m, pato moñudo m, pato pinto m, porrón albeola m
• Swedish: buffelhuvud c
• Ukrainian: малий гоголь m (malyj hoholʹ)