buffaloed
SayBUF-uh-lohdUS/ˈbʌf.ə.loʊd/UK/ˈbʌf.əl.əʊd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of buffalo.
The smooth-talking dealer buffaloed my uncle into paying twice what the truck was worth.
The rookie pitcher wasn't buffaloed by the jeering crowd and finished the inning without a walk.
Note
In everyday use this is American slang, and two patterns carry it: buffaloed into doing something means bluffed or bullied into it, while buffaloed by something means cowed or baffled. Keep it out of formal prose. The same spelling also serves the plain hunting sense, and an archaic one that meant to pistol-whip someone.
buffaloed is a form of buffalo
buffalo, verb: To confuse, deceive, or intimidate someone, or to outwit them. Full entry
- Forms
- buffalobuffaloes he/she/itbuffaloing -ing formbuffaloed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- buffalo → buffaloed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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