buffaloes

Variant of buffalo

noun pl. buffaloes, buffalo, buffalos

  1. any of various wild oxen, sometimes domesticated, as the water buffalo of India or Cape buffalo of Africa
  2. popularly the American bison
  3. ☆ a robe made of buffalo skin
  4. ☆ buffalo fish

Origin: It bufalo < LL bufalus, var. of bubalus, wild ox < Gr boubalos, buffalo, antelope < bous, ox, cow

transitive verb buffaloed, buffaloing

Slang to baffle, bewilder, bluff, or overawe
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