buffalo
noun
[ ˈbʌfələʊ ]
• a heavily built wild ox with backswept horns, found mainly in the Old World tropics.
• the North American bison.
• a large greyish-olive freshwater fish with thick lips, common in North America.
buffalo
verb
• overawe or intimidate (someone).
• "she didn't like being buffaloed"
Origin:
mid 16th century: probably from Portuguese bufalo, from late Latin bufalus, from earlier bubalus, from Greek boubalos ‘antelope, wild ox’.
