different between buzzard vs puttock

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English puttock, puttok, potok, puttoc, of uncertain origin; perhaps representing an unattested Old English *putta (“hawk”) +? -ock; or perhaps from Old English *p?thafoc (literally “pout-hawk”), equivalent to pout (“a kind of fish”) +? hawk. Compare also pout (“a young bird”), poult.

Noun

puttock (plural puttocks)

1. (now Britain regional) Any of several birds of prey including the red kite, buzzard or marsh harrier
2. (by extension) A rapacious person who preys on the defenseless.
3. (nautical) The futtock.

Derived terms

• puttock plate
• puttock ring