buffle

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See also: büffle

English

Pronunciation

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
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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.

References

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

Noun

buffle m (plural buffles, feminine bufflonne)

  1. buffalo

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