English
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Etymology
Compound of buffle (“buffalo”) + head, so called for its large head.
Pronunciation
Noun
bufflehead (plural buffleheads)
- A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola. [from 1850s]
- Synonyms: butterbox, woolhead
- (obsolete) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [from 1650s]
- 1694, unknown translation, Plautus:
What makes you stare so, bufflehead?
Translations
a duck in the goldeneye genus
- Breton: garv kilpenn gwenn
- Catalan: morell capblanc m
- Czech: hohol bělavý (cs) m
- Dutch: buffelkopeend (nl)
- Esperanto: grandkapa klangulo
- Finnish: pikkutelkkä (fi)
- French: garrot albéole m, petit garrot m
- German: Büffelkopfente f
- Hungarian: fehérfejű kerceréce
- Italian: quattrocchi minore m
- Japanese: 姫羽白 (himehajiro), ヒメハジロ
- Nahuatl: āmanacocheh
- Navajo: ayánítsiiʼí
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bøffeland f
- Polish: gągołek (pl) m
- Portuguese: pato-de-touca-branca m
- Romanian: rață sunătoare americană f
- Russian: ма́лый го́голь m (mályj gógolʹ)
- Spanish: porrón coronado m, pato moñudo m, pato pinto m, porrón albeola m
- Swedish: buffelhuvud c
- Ukrainian: малий гоголь m (malyj hoholʹ)
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