buffle
See also: büffle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʌfəl/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌfəl
Etymology 1
A buffle.
From Middle French buffle.
Noun
buffle (plural buffles)
- (obsolete) A buffalo.
- 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, OCLC 869931719:
- [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi
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Derived terms
- buffle-headed
Verb
buffle (third-person singular simple present buffles, present participle buffling, simple past and past participle buffled)
- (intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
Related terms
- baffle
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for buffle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Etymology
From Old French bufle, from Italian bufalo, from Vulgar Latin *būfalus, variant form of Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /byfl/
audio (file)
Noun
buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)
- buffalo
Derived terms
- buffle du cap
- buffle équinoxial
- buffle nain
- crapaud buffle
Further reading
- “buffle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- bluffe, bluffé