buffalo

1. 1.

   intimidate or overawe

   Broaderoverawe

Other forms of buffalo

plural

buffaloes

past tense

buffaloed·

present participle

buffaloing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buffalo

What does buffalo mean?

buffalo means "large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buffalo?

buffalo has 3 syllables: buf-fa-lo. The stress falls on "buf". In IPA it is /ˈbʌfəˌloʊ/.

What is another word for buffalo?

Close synonyms include American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison, Old World buffalo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buffalo a common word?

buffalo is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with buffalo?

17 words rhyme with buffalo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.