Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and African buffalo.
- n. The North American bison, Bison bison.
- n. The buffalo fish.
- v. To intimidate, as by a display of confidence or authority: "The board couldn't buffalo the federal courts as it had the Comptroller” ( American Banker).
- v. To deceive; hoodwink: "Too often . . . job seekers have buffaloed lenders as to their competency and training” ( H. Jane Lehman).
- v. To confuse; bewilder.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ruminant mammal of the family Bovidæ, the best-known species of which is the Bubalus buffelus or Bos bubalus, larger than the ox and with stouter limbs, originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern hemisphere. It is less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers. It is, however, used in tillage, draft, and carriage in India and elsewhere. The female gives much more milk than the cow, and from the milk the ghee or clarified butter of India is made. The Cape buffalo, Bubalus or Bos caffer, is distinguished by the shape of its horns, which are black and united at their bases, forming a great bony plate on the front of the head. It attains the size of an ox. The hide is exceedingly tough, and a valuable leather is prepared from it, but the flesh is not highly esteemed.
- n. A name given to various wild oxen, or Bovinæ, and particularly to the bison of North America, Bison americanus. See bison.
- n. A buffalo-robe.
- n. A buffalo-fish.
- n. A leather hamper used for carrying bobbins.
- n. plural [capitalized] In United States history, a name given by their opponents to those members of the Locofoco or Equal Rights party who in 1836 accepted the overtures of the regular Democratic organization (Tammany) toward a coalition.
- n. plural A nickname given to the dwellers on the coast of North Carolina.
- n. See buffalo-pea.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Buabalus bubalis.
- n. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
- n. A buffalo robe.
- n. The buffalo fish.
- v. transitive To hunt buffalo.
- v. US, slang, transitive To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
- v. archaic, transitive To pistol-whip.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (Bubalus bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
- n. (Zoöl.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (Syncerus Caffer syn. Bubalus Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also
Cape buffalo . - n. (Zoöl.) Any species of wild ox.
- n. (Zoöl.) The bison of North America.
- n. A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
- n. (Zoöl.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalofish, below.
WordNet 3.0
- v. intimidate or overawe
- n. meat from an American bison
- n. any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo
- n. a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls)
- n. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
Etymologies
- Portuguese búfalo ("buffalo"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian bufalo or Portuguese or Spanish búfalo, from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, antelope, buffalo, from Greek boubalos, perhaps from bous, cow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Inside the barn Ron sequesters the water buffalo from the goats with a big blue farm gate that leads into the loafing room.”
“Using the same logic as you just did, I could argue that the fact that the economy in buffalo was horrible for most of the 1990s was "an interesting data point that needs some explainin '" to all the economists who tell us that we were in a boom over that time.”
“Hi i live near buffalo, New York and i LOVE the Twilight Saga im like the twilight sagas biggest fan, my mom said they might be filming part of Breaking Dawn in buffalo, new york or in niagra falls is this trueI”
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“Oh, shooting a white deer or buffalo is certain to bring forth bad mojo!”
“I live in buffalo county and if you cant kill your share of deer in 9 days you wont do it in 16.”
“My taxes on 120 acres in buffalo county could choke a horse!!!”
“I was in buffalo county hunting the early season and this big boy came up bout 5 yards but let him go for another hunter.”
“I've lived in buffalo county for over 30yrs I remember just asking the farmer to hunt and they would say go ahead.”
“I hunt in buffalo county and I have seen some nice bucks ... you see huge bucks before the gun season but when it comes to opening morning they are no where to be found on the land that you hunt on. one of my family members took a large buck 14 pt buck opening morning about four years ago.”
“One thing is for sure, if anybody murders this buck, me and my friends will be in buffalo county protesting the terrible animal killer who killed this magnificant animal.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘buffalo’.
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These Verbs Are Made of Meat
baconize, baconise, meatpacking, permeate, hambone hambone h..., spam, fillet, shank, mince, beef, chine, flank and 28 more...
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Animals
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Words
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Talking About Words
The favorite words of Talking Tyrants
dolorous, parsimonious, apotemnophilia, odalisque, tuberoinfundibular, morass, ostentatious, sybaritic, vermilion, onomatopoeia, eschatology, teleology and 49 more...
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Two for the price of one
Words that call to mind two different organisms: e.g., roach the insect and the fish; crow like a rooster. Words such as bullfrog where only part of the word refers to the second organism are exclu...
roach, crow, buck, monkey puzzle, pup, grunt, calf, crab, hens and chicks, loggerhead, tom, man-of-war and 8 more...
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Animal kings
crocodilian, lagomorph, ovine, bovine, lupine, minatory, arthropod, zoömimetic, nag, pronk, entomology, buffalo and 34 more...
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Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's Capitol
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Meats: For All the Carnivores out There
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Just kidding. Kind of.yak, wood pigeon, wild turkey, wild boar, venison, veal, turtle, turkey, squirrel, squab, snail, rattlesnake and 51 more...
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Favorites
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Australian Fauna
endemic species of terra australis
phascogale, wombat, ornithoryncus, wambenger, tuan, potoroo, platypus, echidna, bilby, bandicoot, antechinus, numbat and 101 more...
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
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bilby A robe used for carrying bobbins given by their opponents to those members of the coast of North Carolina. Jun 18, 2012
ruzuzu Bilby: Were you talking about introduction of the buffalo or the tooth fairy? Jun 18, 2012
oroboros Naked greeting? Dec 13, 2009
bilby Introduced from Asia to Australia, though still somewhat iconic in the north. Nov 23, 2007
reesetee There went my childhood.... *sniff* Sep 14, 2007
jennarenn Those of us under ten were simply shocked at this revelation. The tooth fairy also drives a really bad chocolate brown van. I have no idea how he makes time for his night job with all that traffic.
Moral of the story: Dads will say anything to make five-year olds shut up. Sep 13, 2007
uselessness Negative, negative negatives negatively negate negative negative negatives. Sep 13, 2007
reesetee Wait...the Tooth Fairy is a guy??? Sep 13, 2007
jennarenn On a side note, our family took the World's Longest Road Trip to Canada when I was about eight. My sister was very worried that the Tooth Fairy wouldn't find her in Ontario, but Dad assured her that he was actually based out of Buffalo, and made trips across the border all the time. Sep 13, 2007
jennarenn What!What?What!What?WHAT??!!!
What, that's not a grammatically correct sentence too? Sep 13, 2007
reesetee Fascinating. That actually hurts to think about. Sep 9, 2007
oroboros More, in depth: Here Sep 8, 2007
seanahan You don't actually need to use the proper noun.
Dec 27, 2006
born2badored Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
i.e: Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community, also happen to intimidate other bison in their community Dec 27, 2006