buzzard
名词 n.
英 /ˈbʌzəd/
美 /ˈbʌzɚd/|/ˈbɐzəd/
英文释义
名词 n.
- Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
- A bastard.
- Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
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In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
— 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.
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A blockhead; a dunce.
— 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.
- Synonym of double bogey.
- A fighter plane.
- The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy.
- A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate).
词汇关系
衍生词
augur buzzard
Buteo augur
belled buzzard
buzzard bait
buzzard-eagle
buzzardet
buzzardlike
Buzzards Bay
common buzzard
Buteo buteo
crested honey buzzard
eastern buzzard
Buteo japonicus
European honey buzzard
forest buzzard
Buteo trizonatus
gag a buzzard off a gut wagon
grasshopper buzzard
Butastur rufipennis
grey-faced buzzard
Butastur indicus
honey buzzard
jackal buzzard
Buteo rufofuscus
knock a buzzard off a gut wagon
knock a buzzard off a shit wagon
lizard buzzard
Kaupifalco monogrammicus
long-legged buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Madagascar buzzard
Buteo brachypterus
moor buzzard
mountain buzzard
Buteo oreophilus
red-necked buzzard
Buteo auguralis
rough-legged buzzard
rufous-winged buzzard
Butastur liventer
stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
turkey buzzard
upland buzzard
Buteo hemilasius
white-eyed buzzard
Butastur teesa
词源
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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