Blizzard vs Buzzard - What's the difference?
blizzard | buzzard |
A severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility.
(figuratively) A large amount of paperwork.
(figuratively) A large number of similar things.
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, title= Any of several Old World birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.
In North America, a general term for scavenging birds such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus''), and the turkey vulture (''Cathartes aura ).
A curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
(archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
* Goldsmith
As nouns the difference between blizzard and buzzard
is that blizzard is a severe snowstorm, especially with strong winds and greatly reduced visibility while buzzard is any of several old world birds of prey with broad wings and a broad tail.As a verb blizzard
is (impersonal|of snow) to fall in windy conditions.blizzard
English
Noun
(en noun)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Coordinate terms
* flurrybuzzard
English
(wikipedia buzzard)Noun
(en noun)- It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard .
