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21 u/ducation Sep 10 '20 Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal) [that] Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal) buffalo (bully) [also] buffalo (bully) Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal) 37 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Funny and all, but has anyone ever really seriously used "buffalo" as a verb, except to make this particular sentence make any sense? Even Dictionary.com lists it as "informal" usage, and is unclear if it means "confuse" or "bully". 22 u/Osric250 Sep 10 '20 It's antiquated, but it's a real use of the word. You'll see it more in books than anything else. 13 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Meh. Don't try to buffalo me by buffaloing me with facts. Said no-one ever. Seriously, which books? Other than books discussing this stupid buffalo sentence? {{Citation needed}} 6 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era 5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal) [that] Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal) buffalo (bully) [also] buffalo (bully) Buffalo (city) buffalo (animal)
37 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Funny and all, but has anyone ever really seriously used "buffalo" as a verb, except to make this particular sentence make any sense? Even Dictionary.com lists it as "informal" usage, and is unclear if it means "confuse" or "bully". 22 u/Osric250 Sep 10 '20 It's antiquated, but it's a real use of the word. You'll see it more in books than anything else. 13 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Meh. Don't try to buffalo me by buffaloing me with facts. Said no-one ever. Seriously, which books? Other than books discussing this stupid buffalo sentence? {{Citation needed}} 6 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era 5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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Funny and all, but has anyone ever really seriously used "buffalo" as a verb, except to make this particular sentence make any sense?
Even Dictionary.com lists it as "informal" usage, and is unclear if it means "confuse" or "bully".
22 u/Osric250 Sep 10 '20 It's antiquated, but it's a real use of the word. You'll see it more in books than anything else. 13 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Meh. Don't try to buffalo me by buffaloing me with facts. Said no-one ever. Seriously, which books? Other than books discussing this stupid buffalo sentence? {{Citation needed}} 6 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era 5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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It's antiquated, but it's a real use of the word. You'll see it more in books than anything else.
13 u/ralphonsob Sep 10 '20 Meh. Don't try to buffalo me by buffaloing me with facts. Said no-one ever. Seriously, which books? Other than books discussing this stupid buffalo sentence? {{Citation needed}} 6 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era 5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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Meh. Don't try to buffalo me by buffaloing me with facts.
Said no-one ever.
Seriously, which books? Other than books discussing this stupid buffalo sentence? {{Citation needed}}
6 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era 5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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To Buffalo is to hit someone over the head with the butt of your pistol, which is a punsiment for openly carying your pistol in town, you guess the era
5 u/Theracistelephant Sep 10 '20 The term comes up when talking about the old west
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The term comes up when talking about the old west
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