buffalo vs urchin

buffalo

noun
  • The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.). 

  • A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison. 

  • Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis. 

  • A nickel. 

verb
  • To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate. 

  • To hunt buffalo. 

urchin

noun
  • A sea urchin. 

  • One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog. 

  • A street urchin, a child who lives, or spends most of their time, in the streets. 

  • A mischievous child. 

  • A neutron-generating device that triggered the nuclear detonation of the earliest plutonium atomic bombs. 

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