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Meanings of bufflehead in English

Small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage.

        Usage of bufflehead in English
        1
        At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along in the current just offshore.
        The new yorker
        2
        He tells me that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the veriest knave and bufflehead that over he saw.
        The Diary of Samuel Pepys
        3
        Listen to the great bufflehead!
        Secret Bread
        4
        You tip this ol' bufflehead into watter,' you said, 'an' gormed if I don't give 'ee a poond note.'
        Love Among the Chickens
        5
        Ivory-billed woodpecker, butterball, bufflehead.
        Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
        6
        Billy shot a female Bufflehead Duck; she was so small-only 8 inches in slack girth-thatshe could easily have entered an ordinary Woodpecker hole.
        The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search o...
        Bufflehead through the time