buffle

See also: büffle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌfəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌfəl

Etymology 1

A buffle.

From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.

Noun

buffle (plural buffles)

1. (obsolete) A buffalo.
   • 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, 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

Derived terms

• bufflehead
• buffle-headed

Etymology 2

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To puzzle; to baffle.

Related terms

• baffle

References

• “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/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)

1. 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