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Buzzard

//ˈbʌzəɹd// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Old French.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
  2. 2
    A bastard. euphemistic
  3. 3
    the common European short-winged hawk wordnet
  4. 4
    Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura). Canada, US
  5. 5
    a New World vulture that is common in South America and Central America and the southern United States wordnet
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  1. 6
    In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person. colloquial, derogatory, slang

    "Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized."

  2. 7
    A blockhead; a dunce. archaic

    "1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142, An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword."

  3. 8
    Synonym of double bogey.
  4. 9
    A fighter plane. US, World-War-I, slang
  5. 10
    The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy. US, dated, slang
  6. 11
    A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate). US, slang

Etymology

From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French busart, busard, a derivative ( + -ard) of Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin būteō (“hawk”).

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