Dictionary Definition
buffalo
Noun
1 large shaggy-haired brown bison of North
American plains [syn: American
bison, American
buffalo, Bison
bison]
2 a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near
Niagara Falls)
3 meat from an American bison
4 any of several Old World animals resembling
oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo [syn: Old World
buffalo] v : intimidate or overawe [also: buffaloes (pl)]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Buffalo
English
Etymology
Portuguese búfaloNoun
- Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape Buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Buabalus bubalis.
- A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison.
- A buffalo robe.
- The buffalo fish.
Related terms
Translations
Old World mammals
- Afrikaans: buffel
- Albanian: bualli
- Basque: bufalo
- Belarusian: буйвал
- Bulgarian: бивол
- Catalan: búfal
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 水牛, 水牛 (shuǐ niú)
- Croatian: bivol
- Czech: buvol
- Danish: bøffel
- Dutch: buffel , kafferbuffel (Syncerus caffer), karbouw (Bubalus bubalis), waterbuffel (Bubalus bubalis)
- Estonian: pühvel
- Faroese: búffil
- Finnish: puhveli
- French: buffle
- Friulian: bufal , bo salvadi
- Galician: búfalo
- German: Büffel, Wisent
- Greek: βουβάλι (vuváli)
- Hebrew: באפלו (bufalo)
- Hungarian: bivaly
- Icelandic: buffall
- Japanese: 野牛 (yagyū)
- Latin: bubalus
- Latvian: bifelis
- Lithuanian: buivolas
- Lower Sorbian: buwoł
- Macedonian: бивол (bivol)
- Malayalam: പോത്ത് (pOththu) , എരുമ (eruma)
- Maltese: buflu
- Norwegian: bøffel
- Occitan: bufre
- Polish: bawół
- Portuguese: búfalo
- Russian: буйвол
- Serbian: биво (bivo)
- Slovak: byvol
- Slovene: bivol
- Spanish: búfalo
- Swahili: mbogo
- Swedish: buffel
- Telugu: గేదె (gaede), బర్రె (barre)
- Turkish: kara sığır
- Ukrainian: буйвол
- Upper Sorbian: buwoł
- Urdu: ,
- West Frisian: buffel
North American bison
- Bulgarian: бизон
- Cherokee: ᏴᏑ (yvsu)
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 野牛, 野牛 (yě niú)
- Cree: ᐸᔉᐙᐎᒧᐢᑐᐢ (paskwaawimostos)
- Czech: bizon
- Danish: bison
- Dutch: bizon , buffel (inaccurate translation of buffalo meaning bison)
- Finnish: biisoni
- French: bison
- German: Bison, Büffel
- Hebrew: ביזון (bizon)
- Hungarian: bölény
- Italian: bison
- Japanese: 野牛 (yagyū), アメリカ野牛 (アメリカやぎゅう, Amerika yagyū)
- Korean: 들소 (deulso)
- Lakota: tatanka
- Lithuanian: bizonas
- Norwegian: bison
- Ojibwe: ᒪᔥᑯᑌᐱᔑᑭ (mashkodebizhiki)
- Polish: bizon
- Portuguese: bicão
- Russian: бизон
- Slovak: zubor
- Slovene: bizon
- Spanish: bisonte
- Swedish: bisonoxe
- Turkish: bizonu
- Ukrainian: бізон (bizon)
robe
fish
- ttbc Afrikaans: buffel
- ttbc Albanian: bualli
- ttbc Basque: bufalo
- ttbc Belarusian: буйвал
- ttbc Breton: bual
- ttbc Bulgarian: бивол (bivol)
- ttbc Catalan: búfal
- ttbc Cherokee: ᏴᏑ (yvsu)
- ttbc Croatian: bivol
- ttbc Esperanto: bubalo
- ttbc Estonian: pühvel
- ttbc Faroese: búffil
- ttbc French: buffle
- ttbc Friulian: bufal, bo salvadi
- ttbc Galician: búfalo
- ttbc Greek: βουβάλι
- ttbc Hebrew: באפלו (bufalo)
- ttbc Icelandic: buffall
- ttbc Irish: buaball
- ttbc Italian: bufalo
- ttbc Ladin: bo salvare
- ttbc Latin: bubalus
- ttbc Latvian: bifelis
- ttbc Lithuanian: buivolas
- ttbc Lower Sorbian: buwoł
- ttbc Macedonian: бивол (bivol)
- ttbc Malay: misa
- ttbc Malayalam: പോത്ത് (pOththu) , എരുമ (eruma)
- ttbc Maltese: buflu
- ttbc Norwegian: bøffel
- ttbc Occitan: bufre
- ttbc Portuguese: búfalo
- ttbc Romani: guruv
- ttbc Romanian: bivol
- ttbc Romansh: bov selvadi
- ttbc Sami: buffalo
- ttbc Sardinian: boe aresti, búfalu
- ttbc Scottish: buabhall
- ttbc Serbian: биво (bivo)
- ttbc Slovak: byvol
- ttbc Spanish: búfalo
- ttbc Swahili: mbogo
- ttbc Swedish: buffel
- ttbc Telugu: గేదె (gaede), బర్రె (barre)
- ttbc Turkish: kara sığır
- ttbc Ukrainian: буйвол (bujvol)
- ttbc Upper Sorbian: buwoł
- ttbc Urdu: ,
- ttbc Welsh: byfflo
Verb
- To hunt buffalo.
- In the context of "US|slang|transitive": To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
- archaic transitive To pistol-whip.
Translations
hunt buffalo
- Danish: jage bøfler, gå på jagt (gå på bøffeljagt)
- Polish: polować na bawoły
outwit, confuse
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 愚弄, 愚弄 (yú nòng)
- Danish: forvirre, bringe ud af det, sætte til vægs
pistol-whip
Extensive Definition
Buffalo most commonly refers to:
- Various wild mammals of the Bovinae subfamily (bovines)
- Buffalo, New York, a U.S. city
Buffalo may also refer to:
Bovines
- Buffalo, any of various wild oxen of the family Bovidae, suspected to be related to the Bubalus genus either directly or through the more distant Syncerus genus
- Mountain Anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
- Bison, a genus that includes the American Bison (Bison bison), which is also known as the American Buffalo.
- White buffalo, bison that are white in color
- Wisent or European Buffalo (Bison bonasus)
- Gaur (Bos gaurus) sometimes called the Indian Buffalo.
- African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), the buffalo native to Africa.
Fish
Members of the freshwater fish genus Ictiobus, commonly known as "buffalo fish"Plants
- Sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata), also known as "buffalo grass"
- Buffalo bean, certain Fabaceae
- Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), a lawn-grass substitute
Places
United States
- Buffalo, New York
- Buffalo, Illinois
- Buffalo, Indiana
- Buffalo, Iowa
- Buffalo, Kansas
- Buffalo, Minnesota
- Buffalo, Missouri
- Buffalo, North Dakota
- Buffalo, Oklahoma
- Buffalo, South Carolina
- Buffalo, South Dakota
- Buffalo, Texas
- Buffalo, West Virginia
- Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin
- Buffalo, Wyoming
- Buffalo County, Nebraska
- Buffalo County, South Dakota
- Buffalo County, Wisconsin
- Buffalo Grove, Illinois
- Buffalo Township, Minnesota
- Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, one of four townships in Pennsylvania
- New Buffalo, Michigan
- Buffalo Gap National Grassland, a National Grassland located in South Dakota
- Buffalo Bayou, a main waterway flowing through Houston, Texas
- Buffalo River and Buffalo Creek, the name of several rivers
- Buffalo Central Terminal, a key railroad station from the 1920s through the 1970s
- Buffalo Bill's, a hotel and casino in Primm, Nevada
Canada
- Calgary Buffalo, an election district in Alberta, Canada
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alberta, Canada.
- Buffalo (province), a proposed province in Western Canada that would have encompassed what are now Alberta and Saskatchewan
South Africa
- Buffalo City Local Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province
- Buffalo Park, a cricket ground in East London, Eastern Cape Province
- Buffalo River (South Africa), which formed part of the old border between Zululand and Natal
Elsewhere
- Mount Buffalo National Park, a mountain plateau in Victoria, northeast of Melbourne, Australia
Military units
- Buffalo (mine protected vehicle), a military vehicle that allows its operator to examine land mines safely
- HMS Buffalo, one of several British Royal Navy ships
- USS Buffalo, one of several United States Navy ships
- Buffalo Soldier, a nickname for several regiments of the United States Army
- Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U.S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II
- de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo, a V-STOL aircraft produced between 1964 to 1987
- Landing Vehicle Tracked (sometimes designated Buffalo or Water Buffalo), an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II
Sports teams
- Buffalo Bisons (disambiguation), one of several sports teams from Buffalo, New York
- Buffalo Sabres, a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York
- Buffalo Bills, a professional American football team based in Buffalo, New York
- Colorado Buffaloes, or Buffs, the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Colorado
- South African national Australian rules football team, nicknamed the Buffaloes
- Buffalo Braves, an NBA basketball team, which changed its name to "Los Angeles Clippers"
- Vientiane Buffalos RUFC, a semi-pro rugby union football club from Vientiane, Lao P.D.R., comprised mostly of expatriate players
- Wichita Southeast High School, whose mascot is the Buffalo.
People
See Also:
Chief Buffalo (disambiguation)
- Buffalo Bird Woman (1839–1932), Hidatsa author
- Buffalo Bill (1845–1917), an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman
- Chief Buffalo (Gichi-weshki 1759-1855) Ojibwe leader
- White Buffalo (chief) (1862–1929), chief of the Northern Cheyenne
- Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890–1932), journalist, soldier and Native American impostor
- Buffalo Bob Smith (1917–1998), host of the children's show Howdy Doody
- Black Buffalo Woman, the first wife of Crazy Horse
- Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Cheyenne heroine
- Buffalo Hump, Comanche leader
- Buffalo Six, six Yemeni-Americans convicted of supporting al-Qaeda
- Johnson W. Greybuffalo (born 1974), murderer
- Black Buffalo (1767-1823), Sioux leader
- Beshekee, (Buffalo) an Ojibwa chief of the Leech Lake Band
Other uses
Arts and entertainment
- Buffalo Man, the Jamiroquai album cover's character
- Buffalo (album), a live album by Frank Zappa
- Buffalo (band), a pioneering Australian heavy metal band
- Buffalo (drinking game), a drinking game especially popular in Iceland
- Buffalo ’66, a 1998 film by writer/director Vincent Gallo
- World's Largest Buffalo, a 60 ton sculpture of an American Bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota
- Grant Lee Buffalo, a 1990s rock band
- The Buffalos, a seven member musical collective from San Pedro, California
Computing
- Buffalo Technology, one of several divisions of the Japanese Melco Group
- Buffalo network-attached storage series of storage devices
- Buffalo (linux) - Slackware distribution system for Linux
- BUFFALO (Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operations), a monitor program for the Freescale 68HC11 microcontroller
Transport
- Buffalo Airways, a family run charter and scheduled airline based in Hay River, Canada
- Buffalo (1901 automobile), a US automobile
- Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, a US automobile company
- Buffalo (1872 - 1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
Other
- Buffalo wings, unbreaded chicken wing sections, deep-fried and coated in a spicy sauce
- Buffalo English, or Buffalonian, a variety of English found in Buffalo, New York
- Silver Buffalo Award, the Boy Scouts of America's highest commendation
- Buffalo is a Canadian retail chain
- Buffalo, a West London rude boy fashion trend, celebrated in Neneh Cherry's song "Buffalo Stance"
- Buffaloes, a term for Belgians who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century, travelling through the city of Buffalo, New York on their way to Detroit and Chicago
- An archaic term for "pistol whip"
- The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, a fraternal organisation
- American Buffalo (coin), a one ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22nd June 2006
- Buffalo nickel, an American nickel five-cent piece minted from 1913 to 1938
- Buffalo (clothing), a brand of motorcycle clothing and accessories
- Buffalo by David Bitton, a brand of premium denim
- Buffalo Boots, a brand of shoe
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- "Buffalo chest" in humans is bilateral pneumothoraces (American bison have a single pleural cavity).
See also
- New Buffalo (disambiguation)
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, a grammatical sentence
buffalo in German: Buffalo
(Begriffsklärung)
buffalo in Spanish: Búfalo
buffalo in Esperanto: Bubalo
buffalo in French: Buffalo
buffalo in Dutch: Buffel
buffalo in Japanese: バッファロー
buffalo in Polish: Bawół
buffalo in Finnish: Buffalo
buffalo in Russian: Буйвол
buffalo in Swedish: Buffalo
buffalo in Chinese: 水牛城 (消歧義)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Brahman, Indian buffalo,
addle, amaze, aurochs, baffle, balk, bamboozle, beat, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bilk, bison, boggle, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, bull, bullock, calf, carabao, cattle, circumvent, confound, cow, critter, dairy cattle, dairy
cow, dash, daze, disappoint, dogie, floor, foil, fuddle, get, heifer, hornless cow, keep in
suspense, kine, leppy, lick, maverick, maze, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muddle, muley cow, muley head,
musk-ox, mystify,
neat, nonplus, ox, oxen, perplex, puzzle, ruin, steer, stick, stirk, stot, stump, throw, wisent, yak, yearling, zebu