buffle

To puzzle; to baffle.

Noun

  1. A buffalo.
    • [the Malayan tongue word list] An Oxe or Buffle: Cambi - 1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob...

Origin

From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.

Forms

buffles

Derived

buffle duck bufflehead buffle-headed

Verb

  1. To puzzle; to baffle.

Forms

buffles buffling buffled

Related

baffle