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If you buffalo someone, you are intimidating or asserting authority to get someone to act in a specific manner. It can also mean being confused or baffled, often due to intimidation. If you've been buffaloed, it doesn't mean you had a large ungulate chase you down. Learn about this interesting idiom and how to use it.
- English Teacher
Feb 21, 2003 · It first appeared in the 16th century and comes from an Old Norse word meaning 'to oppress', but it sounds and looks the same as the name of the animal. I think it's conceivable that the name of another kind of bovine was substituted for the verb "cow" by people who knew that word. Buffalo meant 'confuse' as well as 'intimidate' in late 19th ...
Mar 25, 2019 · Drive the dirt roads throughout the reserve area and that controversy becomes clear: “Don’t Buffalo Me,” reads one homemade billboard. Below, it says, “No Federal Land Grab.” APR, a nonprofit funded entirely by private donations, only purchases land from willing sellers at market value and uses no public funds or coercive power of government.
Nov 10, 2006 · to get fooled/manipulated/tricked by someone. As in the drinking game, Buffalo.This is when both you and your friend are holding a alcoholic beverage and each must hold it in his non-dominant hand or else a "Buffalo!"
Don't Buffalo Me: Directed by Hollingsworth Morse. With Ron Hayes, Chill Wills, Patrick Wayne, Janis Hansen. Howdy and Ben are eager to get on the good side of Jim Ed so learning he'd like to own a buffalo they start planning.
- Hollingsworth Morse
- 1966-10-04
- Comedy, Western
- 30
Feb 8, 2009 · The meaning is almost the same today. When someone has you buffaloed, he has tricked or fooled you. The expression "to bulldoze" also means to make someone helpless, usually by using power or ...
