ox, bull, cow, buffalo

名詞 buffalo:

1. large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains
   同義詞：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
   同義詞：Old World buffalo

動詞 buffalo:

1. intimidate or overawe

1. He tried to buffalo me at first meeting but I soon caught on to his tricks.
   初次見面時他企圖欺騙我，但是我很快就明白了他耍的花招。
2. There were lots of buffaloes in the North America 100 years ago.
   100年前，北美有大量的野牛。

buf.fa.lo

n.（名詞）
【復數(shù)】 buffalo 或 buf.fa.loes 或 buf.fa.los

Any of several oxlike Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the water buffalo and Cape buffalo.
水牛，野牛：一種似牛的東半球?？撇溉閯游?，如水牛和非洲野牛
The North American bison,Bison bison.
北美野牛：野牛 屬的北美野牛
The buffalo fish.
牛魚
v.tr.（及物動詞）
buf.fa.loed,buf.fa.lo.ing,buf.fa.loes
To intimidate, as by a display of confidence or authority:
威脅，恐嚇：用顯示信心或權勢來恫嚇：
例句：
.The board couldn`t buffalo the federal courts as it had the Comptroller.(American Banker)
.委員會無法威脅聯(lián)邦法庭，因為他們有審計官.(美國銀行家)

To deceive; hoodwink:
欺騙；蒙蔽：
例句：
.Too often . . . job seekers have buffaloed lenders as to their competency and training.(H. Jane Lehman)
.太多求職者在他們的能力和所受訓練上蒙蔽用人單位.(H.簡·萊曼)

To confuse; bewilder.
迷惑；困惑

來源：
Italian bufalo
意大利語 bufalo
or Portuguese
或 葡萄牙語
or Spanish búfalo
或 西班牙語 búfalo
from Late Latin bôfalus
源自 后期拉丁語 bôfalus
from Latin bôbalus
源自 拉丁語 bôbalus
from Greek boubalos
源自 希臘語 boubalos

<注釋>The buffalo is so closely associated with the Wild West that it would seem natural to assume that its name comes from a Native American word, as is the case with the wordsmoose and skunk. In fact, however,buffalo can probably be traced back by way of one or more of the Romance languages, such as Portuguese, Spanish, or Italian, through Vulgar Latin and Latin and ultimately to the Greek wordboubalos, meaning .an antelope or a buffalo.. The buffalo referred to by the Greek and Latin words was, of course, not the American one but rather an Old World mammal, such as the water buffalo of southern Asia.Applied to the North American mammal,buffalo is in fact a misnomer, bison being the preferred term. As far as everyday usage is concerned, however,buffalo, first recorded for the American mammal in '35, is older thanbison, first recorded in 774.
野牛同西部荒原聯(lián)系如此緊密以致人們很自然地認為這個名字源于美洲本地語言，就象這兩個詞moose 和 skunk。 然而，實際上buffalo 一詞可以通過一種或更多種日耳曼語言，如葡萄牙語、西班牙語或意大利語溯源。 通過通俗拉丁語和拉丁語最終追溯到希臘詞boubalos 意思是.羚羊或野牛.。 希臘語和拉丁語所指的野牛當然不是美洲野牛，而是東半球的一種哺乳動物，如南亞水牛。就北美哺乳動物來說，buffalo 實際上是用詞不當， bison 才是合適的詞。 然而就日常用法而言，buffalo 于'35年首次被用于記錄美國哺乳動物， 比首次記錄于774年的bison 要早些