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.
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     [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi

Derived terms

• 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 be at a loss.

Related terms

• baffle

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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/

• 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