buffle
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle French buffle.
Noun edit
buffle (plural buffles)
- (obsolete) A buffalo.
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- [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 be at a loss.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 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)
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Further reading edit
- “buffle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.