different between buzzard vs egale

English

Etymology

From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin bute?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?z??d/

Noun

buzzard (plural buzzards)

1. Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
2. (Canada, US) Any scavenging bird such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
3. (colloquial, derogatory, slang, often preceded by "old", the "old buzzard") In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
4. (archaic) A blockhead; a dunce.
   • 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,^[1]

     An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.

   • 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Animated Nature, Volume 6, Index,^[2]

     It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.

5. (golf) Synonym of double bogey

Synonyms

• buteo
• broadwing
• turkey vulture
• vulture

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• buzzard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Afrikaans

Adjective

egale

1. attributive form of egaal

Esperanto

Adverb

egale

1. equally

German

Adjective

egale

1. inflection of egal:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular