buffle
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See also: büffle
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle French buffle.
Noun[edit]
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:
- [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
buffle (third-person singular simple present buffles, present participle buffling, simple past and past participle buffled)
- (intransitive) To puzzle; to baffle.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “buffle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French bufle, from Italian bufalo, from Vulgar Latin *būfalus, variant form of Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “buffle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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