buffalo
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈbʌf.əl.əʊ/
美 /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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An animal from the subtribe Bubalina, also known as true buffalos, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis.
— "It must be a very wild stretch of country, and full of big game. I have always wanted to kill a buffalo before I die."
- A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
- Ellipsis of buffalo robe.
- The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.).
- A nickel.
- A looter during the Civil War.
- A large or stupid person.
- An obese person, usually a woman.
- A black male.
- Ellipsis of American buffalo (“gold bullion coin”).
动词 v.
- To hunt buffalo.
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To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
— I'm just gonna let you have it. Probably in the midst of a kiss. Right when you think everything’s been healed up. Right in the moment when you're sure you've got me buffaloed. That's when you'll die.
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To pistol-whip.
— Whereupon the twelve-inch barrel of the Buntline Special was laid alongside and just underneath the Rachal hatbrim most effectively. The buffaloed cattleman dropped to the walk, unconscious.
词汇关系
衍生词
African buffalo
American buffalo
antibuffalo
atomic buffalo turd
beefalo
Bremelo
buffalo bean
buffalo-berry
buffaloberry
buffalo berry
buffalo bird
buffalo bug
buffalo-bur
buffalo bur
buffalo burr
buffaloburger
buffalo-bur nightshade
buffalo-burr
buffalo cauliflower
buffalo chip
Buffalo City
buffalo clover
Buffalo County
buffalo fly
Buffalo Gap
buffalo gnat
buffalo grass
Buffalo Grove
buffalo hump
buffalo jump
buffalopox
Buffalo River
buffalo robe
buffalo sauce
buffalo-skin
buffalo soldier
buffalo thorn
Buffalo Trace
buffalo weaver
buffalo wing
buffalo worm
buffalypso
buffarilla
Cape buffalo
catalo
cattalo
cattelo
North American buffalo
plains buffalo
she-buffalo
water buffalo
water buffalo calf
Wood Buffalo
yakalo
词源
词源 1
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
词源 2
Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish búfalo (“buffalo”), from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). Doublet of bubale and buffle.
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