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Definition: Buzzard |
BuzzardNoun1. Common in South and Central America and southern United States. 2. The common European short-winged hawk. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "buzzard" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Etymology: Buzzard \Buz"zard\ (b[u^]z"z[~e]rd), n. [O.E. busard, bosard, French busard, from buse, Latin buteo, a kind of falcon or hawk.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you hear a buzzard talking, foretells that some old scandal will arise and work you injury by your connection with it. To see one sitting on a railroad, denotes some accident or loss is about to descend upon you. To see them fly away as you approach, foretells that you will be able to smooth over some scandalous disagreement among your friends, or even appertaining to yourself. To see buzzards in a dream, portends generally salacious gossip or that unusual scandal will disturb you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Buzzard (The) is meant for Dr. Burnett, whose figure was lusty. "The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best." Dryden: Hind and Panter, part iii. 1121. Buzzard called hawk by courtesy. It is a euphemism- a brevet rank- a complimentary title. "Of small renown, 'tis true; for, not to lie, We call [your buzzard] "hawk" by courtesy." Dryden: Hind and Panther, iii. 1122-3. Between hawk and buzzard. Not quite a lady or gentleman, nor quite a servant. Applied to tutors in private houses, bear-leaders, and other grown-up persons who are allowed to come down to dessert, but not to be guests at the dinner-table. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BUZZARD. A simple fellow. A blind buzzard: a pur-blind man or woman. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: BuzzardSynonyms: turkey buzzard (n), turkey vulture (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. |
Fool | Oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
Pain | Adjective: in pain, in a state of pain, full of pain; Noun: suffering; Verb: pained, afflicted, worried, displeased; aching, griped, sore; (physical pain); on the rack, in limbo; between hawk and buzzard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Buzzard |
| English words defined with "buzzard": Bee hawk, black vulture, Buzzardet ♦ carrion crow, Chimango, Coragyps atratus ♦ Dor ♦ Fishhawk ♦ Glede ♦ honey buzzard, Honey kite ♦ marsh harrier ♦ Pern, Puttock ♦ red-tailed hawk ♦ turkey buzzard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "buzzard": Hawk nor Buzzard. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Bashful Buzzard (1945) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Buteo swainsoni. Swainson's Buzzard, a variety of hawk. This image was included in: Reports of Explorations and Surveys .... Volume X. 1859. Plate XII. P. 16 of U. S. Pacific Railroad Explorations and Surveys 38th,39th, 41st Parallels. Call Number F593 .U58 1855 . Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Buzzard Pete. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Potomac Electric Power Co. Buzzard Point plant. Coal pile at night at Buzzard Point plant. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The shadow of a buzzard slid across the earth, and the family all looked up at the sailing black bird |
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| "Buzzard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.73% of the time. "Buzzard" is used about 159 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 76.73% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.27% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Total | 100.00% | 159 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "buzzard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Buzzard | Last name | 1,000 | 9,997 |
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Expressions using "buzzard": Bald buzzard ♦ between hawk and buzzard ♦ buzzard clock ♦ Carrion buzzard ♦ honey buzzard ♦ keep between hawk and buzzard ♦ moor buzzard ♦ turkey buzzard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "buzzard": buzzard-based, buzzard-like, buzzard-sized. | |
Ending with "buzzard": honey-buzzard. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "buzzard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tarallak (dull, dull fellow, idiot, simpleton, stupid), qift (kite). (various references) | |
Arabic | صقر (falcon, hawk, tercel), شخص جدير بالإزدراء (hound, stinkard, swine, worm). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мишелов. (various references) | |
Czech | kánì. (various references) | |
Danish | musvaage. (various references) | |
Dutch | buizerd. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرنده ای شبیه باز, لاشخور (Lammergeyer), سنقر, ادم لاشخوروپست . (various references) | |
Finnish | hiirihaukka. (various references) | |
French | buse variable, buse (bush, sprue bush). (various references) | |
German | bussard. (various references) | |
Greek | ποντικοβαρβακίνα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ölyv (hawk). (various references) | |
Indonesian | elang (eagle, hawk). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | kaajuuq. (various references) | |
Italian | poiana. (various references) | |
Manx | shirragh (bird of prey, falcon, kite, seeker). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uzzardbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | urubu (vulture), pessoa desprezível, águia d'asa redonda. (various references) | |
Russian | канюк. (various references) | |
Scottish | gilm (a buzzard), finnean (a buzzard), clamhan (a buzzard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mišar. (various references) | |
Shona | nyamudzura. (various references) | |
Spanish | busardo (henharrier, marsh harrier), zopilote, ratonero común, águila ratonera. (various references) | |
Swedish | vråk. (various references) | |
Thai | อีแร้ง, คนละโมบ. (various references) | |
Turkish | şahin (falcon, hawk). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | канюк. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chim ó butêo. (various references) | |
Welsh | boncath, boda. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Buteo buteo, RM:girun da mieurs. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | buisart. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "buzzard": buzzards. (additional references) | |
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"Buzzard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bazzar, Bazzaro, bisazir, bizzard, Bozza, uzzard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "buzzard" (pronounced bu"zerd) |
| 3 | -z er d | biohazard, blizzard, Izzard, lizard, gizzard, haphazard, hazard, wizard. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-u-z-z" | |
-2 letters: abuzz. | |
-3 letters: bard, baud, brad, bura, burd, buzz, darb, daub, drab, drub, dura, razz. | |
-4 letters: adz, arb, bad, bar, bra, bud, bur, dab, dub, rad, rub, urb, urd. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, ar, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-u-z-z" | |
+1 letter: buzzards. | |
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