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▪ I. † ˈbuffle, n. Obs.
Also 6 bulfeld?, 6–7 buffell, Sc. buffil, bufle, 7 bufall, buffel, -al(l, -ol.
[a. F. buffle, a common Romanic word:—vulgar L. *būfalus (= L. būbalus): see buffalo n. Cf. also buff n.2 Some of the Eng. spellings in 17th c. show influence of the It. or Sp. forms.]
1. A buffalo; = buffalo n. 1 a, b.
c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 29/1 There [in India] be bulfeldes [? buffelles] & coyes [? cowes] but the coyes slepe [? sleye] they not. 1532Victory agst. Turkes in Dibdin Typog. Antiq. (1816) III. 117 In euery place abode..buffelles. 1623Favine Theat. Hon. ii. xiii. 223 A mouing Chariot, drawne by Oxen or Buffells. 1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 109 Buffles or Buffaloes are numerous in the Cape countries. 1738G. Smith Curious Relations II. 384 After these came a buffle and a fine horse.
b. attrib. (cf. buff n.2)
1577Harrison England ii. xvii. (1877) 292 Ships made of wicker and couered with buffle hides. 1611Bk. Rates (Jam.) Belts called buffil belts, the dozen iiis. 1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxvi, The death of a Buffle-ox. 1808J. Barlow Columb. v. 169 Lured o'er his lawns the buffle herds.
2. A fool; = bufflehead 1. [After F. buffle.]
1655Comic. Hist. Francion iv. 22 He said to the three buffles who stood with their hats in their hands, Tell me, you Waggs, etc. 1710Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 90 To see the chief attorney such a buffle.
▪ II. ˈbuffle, v.
[? Onomatopœic; connected with some sense of buff; or ? misprint for bustle. ‘Buffle to puzzle, be at a loss’ in Johnson (and all subsequent Dictionaries) is a bogus word, founded on the misprint of buffling for bustling.]
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 118 The next age Silver, under Jove, then warre began to buffle. [1730Swift Vindic. Ld. Carteret Wks. 1778 IV. 141 That poor, angry, bustling [J. prints buffling] well-meaning mortal. ] |