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büffeln.

to swot, cram (study with effort)

7 characters2 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

verb/ˈbʏfəln/
  1. to swot, cram (study with effort)

    colloquial · weak
Where this word comes from

According to Kluge, from Büffel (“buffalo”), from its use as a working animal. Pfeifer considers it to have originally been an intensive form of büffen (“to puff, to push”), obsolete alternative form of puffen, with the meaning gained by folk-etymological association with Büffel.

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