Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small North American diving duck (Bucephala albeola) having black and white plumage and a densely feathered, rounded head. Also called butterball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has a large or stupid head, like a buffalo's.
- n. Same as buffle, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola.
- n. obsolete One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
- n. (Zoöl.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
Etymologies
- From buffle + head. (Wiktionary)
- Obsolete buffle, buffalo (from French, from Late Latin būfalus; see buffalo) + head. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term bufflehead refers to the bird's strangely bulbous head shape.”
The Guardian: Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
“Similarly, a bufflehead – a small duck with a distinctive bulbous head – was spotted in a farm pond on the Lizard in Cornwall.”
The Guardian: Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
“Bufflehead Bucephala albeolaThe bufflehead is a small diving duck that forages underwater, eating primarily aquatic plants and fish eggs.”
The Guardian: Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
“The bufflehead has since flown on, probably to Portugal, he added.”
The Guardian: Rare birds flock to British shores in record numbers
“P. S last minute adjustment I just shot a spike and a bufflehead.”
“Well I shot a bufflehead but it started diving on me so I couldn't find it.”
About to head out to the swamp for some wood duck. How's everyone elses season been going?
“But I stopped at the small pond along the highway just the same, in case the bufflehead was still around.”
“Saw a bufflehead on a pond along the highway on the drive home, which was a pleasant and rare surprise.”
“You tip this ol 'bufflehead into sea,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give”
Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm
“You tip this ol 'bufflehead into watter,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give 'ee”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bufflehead’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
photochrom, fufluns, thank you, cool l..., postcard, picture postcard, cricket, physiological ill..., Gakuryū Ishii, ametropia, One Froggy Evening, rhodopsin, Santiago Calatrava and 636 more...
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Duck!
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, or quacks like a duck, then you should probably list it here.
duck, Duck, turducken, duckling, duck tape, Mallard, rubber duckie, Daffy Duck, Donald Duck, lame duck, ducky, ducks and 95 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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hatly matters
manners of hat - some vague, many trite, some not
drop of a hat, talk through (one..., take off (ones) hat, throw in hat, under (ones) hat, hat in hand, hats off, chit-chat, crosshatch, all hat and no ca..., cat in the hat co..., pass the hat around and 52 more...
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artbizness - A Wordie Newbie on a Mis...
The Story of my first few days on Wordie.
spatchcock, mokusatsu, mokusatsu, spargepipe, blimey, labyrinthine, bufflehead, lol, word-lubber, screed, worded gentry, bamboozle and 1 more...
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More Bird Wirds: North America
Birds endemic to the United States and/or North America.
toucan, peacock, weaver, bullfinch, redpoll, siskin, crossbill, finch, rosy-finch, oriole, cowbird, blackbird and 213 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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~~Olde-Fashioned Insults~~
ragamuffin, muttonchops, tatterdemalion, nincompoop, whippersnapper, bootlicker, backscratcher, loggerhead, weisenheimer, hornswoggler, thimblerigger, quacksalver and 111 more...
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Favorite Tangible Object Words
Trimming the "Chained Bear's Favorites" list so I don't crash people's computers... like my own...
castanets, whaup, budgie, wallabies, ring-wraith, hobbit, chinchilla, guano, merganser, phalarope, phalarope, curlew and 138 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Ooooh, burn!
Obscure insults
dotard, nescient, goatsucker, scrofulous, faineant, pinguid, milquetoast, sleazo, varlet, jollux, rixatrix, sciolist and 46 more...
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Just ducky
bufflehead, merganser, canvasback, muscovy, smew, pochard, shoveler, goosander, teal, seaduck, sheldrake, mallard and 66 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bufflehead.
fbharjo What is a buffle? Mar 16, 2012
fbharjo complementary buffalo head Mar 16, 2012