Noun: buzzard
| Singular | buzzard |
| Plural | buzzards |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1995, LaRee Bryant, Forever, My Love, page 88:]
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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,
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An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
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It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard. [1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Animated Nature, volume 6, Index:]
Nouns inflected like buzzard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
bosart', French Nouns '
buse', Latin Nouns '
būteō'.