Etymology

buffle

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Today it means: A buffalo. Full definition →

Middle French buffle
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  1. Middle French · borrowed frombuffle
  2. English todaybuffle

From Middle French buffle. Doublet of bubale and buffalo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.