buffle

See also: büffle

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbʌfəl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌfəl

Etymology 1
A buffle.

From Middle French buffle.

Noun

buffle (plural buffles)

  1. (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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Verb

buffle (third-person singular simple present buffles, present participle buffling, simple past and past participle buffled)

  1. (intransitive) To puzzle; to be at a loss.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

Inherited 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/
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Noun

buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)

  1. buffalo

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