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Heifer vs Buffalo - What's the difference?

heifer | buffalo |

As a noun heifer

is (label) a young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.

As a proper noun buffalo is

a city in new york state, very near niagara falls.

heifer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
  • * 1611 , KJV, Numbers 19:1-2
  • (label) A wife.
  • *1616 , Ben Jonson, Epicœne'', Ch. ii., in ''Works , Vol. I, p. 549:
  • A girl.
  • * 1853 , T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws , Vol. II., p. 282:
  • A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
  • * 2001 , Glenda Howard, Cita's World

    • Derived terms

    {{der3, heiferbud, heifer-bud , heifer calf , heifer dust , heiferhood , heifer paddock, heifer-paddock , heifer yearling , plow with one's heifer, plough with one's heifer}}

    References

    English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    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.

    • Related terms

    * buffalo berry * buffalo bird * buffalo bug * buffalo clover * buffalo fly * buffalo gnat * water buffalo

    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