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[buhf-uh-loh]

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noun

any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.

buffalo robe.

a buffalofish.

a shuffling tap-dance step.

verb (used with object) Informal.

to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify: He was buffaloed by the problem.

to impress or intimidate by a display of power, importance, etc.: The older boys buffaloed him.

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Origin:
1535–45, Americanism; earlier bufalo < Portuguese (now bufaro) < Late Latin būfalus, variant of Latin būbalus bubal

Example Sentences

Buffalo has long been plagued by plant closings, an exodus of residents and urban decay.

They are not there for the novelty of shooting a buffalo.

Hunters often concealed themselves beneath buffalo hides.

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Buffalo has long been plagued by plant closings, an exodus of residents and urban decay.

They are not there for the novelty of shooting a buffalo.

Hunters often concealed themselves beneath buffalo hides.

Even the smell of say buffalo wing sauce elicits a sweat reaction on the top of my skull, and down my temples.

Women swathed in black veils and black robes called abayas punt long boats past water buffalo lolling in the mud.

Everything from smoked buffalo to lobster taquitos.

Many people blamed the expansion of liana on the local extinction of elephant and buffalo.

Humans are not a herd of buffalo who instinctively follow each other right over a cliff.

Finger-lickin' sweet replaces blazing buffalo as the flavorings for these tasty wings.

The first person to leave a comment that shows up has to buy the others a round of buffalo dung.

Relax under purple mountain majesties, where quite literally the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope still play more.

Buffalo meat is leaner than beef, and thus well suited to contemporary health worries.

Sticky sweet replaces blazing buffalo with these tasty wings.

One enthusiast sacrifices a buffalo to him every year, and distributes the meat to the gardeners who tend the place.

These days, however, the buffalo would probably get its feet wet.

Buffalo doesn't necessarily bring to mind clear weather, but.

To save themselves from starvation and death, a lion pride stalks a cape buffalo herd and finds a meal.

The interactive museum recreates a buffalo stampede, the lives of pioneers and the building of the railroad.

Relax under purple mountain majesties, where quite literally the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope still play.

Tsaro lions courageously hunt buffalo through water.

Iraqis start the day with a meal of buffalo cream with honey and bread.

Here buffalo still graze golden prairies beneath infinite blue skies, and cell phones often won't work.

Human population density in the watershed is high, yet elephant and buffalo populations have not dropped.

Thousands of elephants, ostriches, and buffalo were also counted.

Buffalo was one of the first cities to seek his advice.

Some adolescent cheetahs start out hunting impossible prey, including buffalo.

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noun

a port in W New York, on Lake Erie. 357,870.

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buffalo (ˈbʌfəˌləʊ)

—n , pl -loes, -lo
1.	Also called: Cape buffalo a member of the cattle tribe, Syncerus caffer, mostly found in game reserves in southern and eastern Africa and having upward-curving horns
2.	short for water buffalo
3.	(US), (Canadian) Also called: bison a member of the cattle tribe, Bison bison, formerly widely distributed over the prairies of W North America but now confined to reserves and parks, with a massive head, shaggy forequarters, and a humped backRelated: bubaline

—vb
4.	(often passive) to confuse
5.	to intimidate

Related: bubaline

[C16: from Italian bufalo, from Late Latin būfalus, alteration of Latin būbalus; see bubal]

Buffalo (ˈbʌfəˌləʊ)

—n
	a port in W New York State, at the E end of Lake Erie. Pop: 285 018 (2003 est)

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Word Origin & History

buffalo

1580s (earlier buffel, 1510s, from M.Fr.), from Port. bufalo "water buffalo," from L. bufalus, var. of bubalus "wild ox," from Gk. boubalos "buffalo," originally a kind of African antelope, later used of a type of domesticated ox in southern Asia and the Mediterranean lands, from bous "ox, cow" (see

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cow). Wrongly applied since 1630s to the American bison. The verb meaning "to overawe" is from 1903. Buffalo gnat is recorded from 1822.

Buffalo

city in western New York state, U.S., of disputed origin (there never were buffalo thereabouts), perhaps from the name of a native chief, or a corruption of Fr. beau fleuve "beautiful river." Buffalo wings finger food so called because the recipe was invented in Buffalo, N.Y., (1964, at Frank & Teressa's

Anchor Bar on Main Street).

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Buffalo definition

City in western New York, on Lake Erie and the Niagara River.

Note: Niagara Falls is northwest of Buffalo.

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