[buhf-uh-loh] 
noun, plural -loes, -los, (especially collectively
) -lo, verb, -loed, -lo⋅ing.| 1. | any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo. |
| 2. | buffalo robe. |
| 3. | a buffalofish. |
| 4. | a shuffling tap-dance step. |
| 5. | to puzzle or baffle; confuse; mystify: He was buffaloed by the problem. |
| 6. | to impress or intimidate by a display of power, importance, etc.: The older boys buffaloed him. |
| buf·fa·lo (bŭf'ə-lō') n. pl. buffalo or buf·fa·loes or buf·fa·los
[Italian bufalo or Portuguese or Spanish búfalo, from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, antelope, buffalo, from Greek boubalos, perhaps from bous, cow; see gwou- in Indo-European roots.] Word History: The buffalo is so closely associated with the Wild West that one might assume that its name comes from a Native American word, as is the case with the words moose and skunk. In fact, however, buffalo can probably be traced back by way of one or more of the Romance languages through Late and Classical Latin and ultimately to the Greek word boubalos, meaning "an antelope or a buffalo." The buffalo referred to by the Greek and Latin words was of course not the American one but an Old World mammal, such as the water buffalo of southern Asia. Applied to the North American mammal, buffalo is a misnomer, bison being the preferred term. As far as everyday usage is concerned, however, buffalo, first recorded for the American mammal in 1635, is older than bison, first recorded in 1774. |
City in western New York, on Lake Erie and the Niagara River.
Note: Niagara Falls is northwest of Buffalo.