buzzard

名词 n.
/ˈbʌzəd/    /ˈbʌzɚd/|/ˈbɐzəd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
  2. A bastard. euphemistic
  3. Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura). Canada,US
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Synonym of double bogey.
  7. A fighter plane. US,World-War-I,slang
  8. The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy. US,dated,slang
  9. A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate). US,slang

词形变化

buzzards plural buzzards plural

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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