buffalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/
enpr: bŭf'ə-lō
ipa: /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/
Forms: form: buffaloes
form: buffalos
form: buffalo
Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: "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."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: 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
ref: 1974, Gil Scott-Heron, “Winter in America”, in Winter in America:
text: 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.
ref: 2015, “Arunachal Pradesh”, in H. M. Bareh, editor, Encyclopaedia Of North-East India, 1st edition, Mittal Publications, →ISBN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2022, page 72:
synonyms: buffle
glosses: An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
glosses: A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
glosses: Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
glosses: The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
glosses: A nickel.
glosses: A looter during the Civil War.
glosses: A large or stupid person.
glosses: An obese person, usually a woman.
glosses: A black male.
glosses: Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Syncerus caffer
word: African buffalo
word: American buffalo
word: antibuffalo
word: atomic buffalo turd
word: beefalo
word: Bremelo
word: buffalo bean
word: buffalo-berry
word: buffaloberry
taxonomic: Shepherdia spp.
word: buffalo berry
word: buffalo bird
taxonomic: Dermestidae spp.
word: buffalo bug
word: buffalo-bur
word: buffalo bur
word: buffalo burr
word: buffaloburger
word: buffalo-bur nightshade
word: buffalo-burr
word: buffalo chip
word: Buffalo City
word: buffalo clover
word: Buffalo County
taxonomic: Haematobia exigua
word: buffalo fly
word: Buffalo Gap
english: Simuliidae
translation: Simuliidae
word: buffalo gnat
word: buffalo grass
word: Buffalo Grove
word: buffalo hump
word: buffalo jump
word: buffalopox
word: Buffalo River
word: buffalo robe
word: buffalo sauce
word: buffalo-skin
word: buffalo soldier
taxonomic: Ziziphus mucronata
word: buffalo thorn
word: Buffalo Trace
english: Bubalornis, Dinemellia
translation: Bubalornis, Dinemellia
word: buffalo weaver
word: buffalo wing
taxonomic: Alphitobius diaperinus
word: buffalo worm
word: buffalypso
word: buffarilla
word: Cape buffalo
word: catalo
word: cattalo
word: cattelo
word: North American buffalo
word: plains buffalo
word: she-buffalo
taxonomic: Bubalus bubalis
word: water buffalo
word: water buffalo calf
word: wood buffalo
word: Wood Buffalo
word: yakalo