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bufo.

Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

4 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbu.fu/Brazil/ˈbu.fu/Portugal
  1. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

    masculine
  2. informant, snitch

    Portugal · colloquial · masculine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese bufo, from Late Latin būfus (cognates include Spanish búho), itself either from Latin *būfō, from Faliscan *būfō, or more likely of onomatopoetic origin; cf. also Ancient Greek βοῦφος (boûphos). Compare to Latin būbō.

adj/ˈbu.fu/Brazil/ˈbu.fu/Portugal
  1. comical or burlesque

Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Italian buffo (“comical”).

noun/ˈbu.fu/Brazil/ˈbu.fu/Portugal
  1. an instance of puffing

    masculine
Where this word comes from

Deverbal from bufar.

verb/ˈbu.fu/Brazil/ˈbu.fu/Portugal
  1. first-person singular present indicative of bufar

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular
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