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buffalo

noun

  1. a member of several of bovine species, including bison, aurochs, and others
L16184 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. to bully, to overawe
L30323 on Wikidata ↗

proper noun

  1. (used attributively) pertaining to a place called Buffalo
  2. city in western New York state, United States
L58773 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbʌfəloʊ/ / /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/ / /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/

name

Etymology: *(North America): Probably from buffalo (“American bison”) (Bison bison), since both cities are in regions that had wild herds at the time the names originated. Buffalo, New York was named after the Buffalo River, which an alternative etymology says is from French beau fleuve (“beautiful river”), but the more likely explanation is that it was named for the animal. *(South Africa): From buffalo (Syncerus caffer), subsp. Cape buffalo commonly found in the region.

  1. A placename

    “And in yet another deadly mass shooting, unfolding in Buffalo on Saturday, a heavily armed white man is accused of killing 10 people after targeting a supermarket on the city’s predominantly Black east side, writing in a lengthy screed posted online that the shoppers there came from a culture that sought to “ethnically replace my own people.””

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noun

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.

  1. An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.

    “"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."”

    “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.”

  2. A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
  3. Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
  4. The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
  5. A nickel.
  6. A looter during the Civil War.
  7. A large or stupid person.
  8. An obese person, usually a woman.
  9. A black male.
  10. Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).

verb

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.

  1. To hunt buffalo.
  2. To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.

    “I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.”

    “The nontechnical administrator should never be buffaloed by the esoteric vocabulary and the endless jargon of the computer expert.”

  3. To pistol-whip.

    “Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.”

    “He walked arrogant and scornful among the Texans and cavalrymen whom he hazed and buffaloed with the barrels of his guns when they got out of line.”