Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A buffalo.
- noun A duck, Bucephala albeola, abundant in North America.
- To speak thickly or inarticulately.
- To be puzzled; be at a loss.
- To handle clumsily.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To puzzle; to be at a loss.
- noun obsolete The buffalo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To
puzzle ; to beat a loss .
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Examples
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The named bounced around a bit -- buffs, bufle, buffle, buffalo, buffaloe -- but it had begun to settle into its modern form by the time of the American revolution.
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision Anonymous
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 05: Deuteronomy The Challoner Revision
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The hart and the roe, the buffle, the chamois, the pygarg, the wild goat, the camelopardalus.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous
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BUFF (from Fr. _buffle_, a buffalo), a leather originally made from the skin of the buffalo, now also from the skins of other animals, of a dull pale yellow colour, used for making the buffcoat or jerkin, a leathern military coat.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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He declared, later and to others, for Merle was not his son, that the young man was highly languageous and highly crazy; that his talk was the crackling of thorns under a pot; that he was a vain canter -- "forever canting," said Sharon -- "a buffle-headed fellow, talking, bragging."
The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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"I got fifteen -- counting shell-drake, two redheads, a black duck, and some buffle-heads."
Athalie Frank Craig 1899
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The "little marquise" was his daughter Elizabeth, and the buffle-headed marquis was Pierre de Caumont, Marquis de Cugnac, whom she married in 1652.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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But this poor lady had a greater loss of my Lord Hastings who died just when they should have been married, and sure she could not think she had recovered it at all by marrying this buffle-headed Marquis.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) 1888
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In a small pool, down in a hollow, were a couple of little dipper ducks or buffle-heads; they rose slowly against the wind, and offered such fair marks that it was out of the question to miss them.
II. Waferfowl 1885
fbharjo commented on the word buffle
How low (Halo) (howhigh)???????????????
March 17, 2012