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Bullock vs Buffalo - What's the difference?

bullock | buffalo |

As nouns the difference between bullock and buffalo

is that bullock is a young bull while buffalo is any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, species: Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo species: Buabalus bubalis.

As verbs the difference between bullock and buffalo

is that bullock is to bully while buffalo is to hunt buffalo.

As a proper noun Buffalo is

a city in New York State, very near Niagara Falls.

bullock

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A young bull.
  • A castrated bull; an ox.
  • Derived terms

    * bullocky * Gundaroo bullock

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To bully.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 47:
  • Yes, you villain, you have defiled my own bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the truth.

    buffalo

    English

    Noun

  • Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, .
  • A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison .
  • A buffalo robe.
  • The buffalo fish.
  • See also

    * *

    Verb

  • To hunt buffalo.
  • (US, slang, transitive) To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate.
  • (archaic) To pistol-whip.
  • See also

    * on Wikipedia English nouns with irregular plurals