Buzzard

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
2. isim Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
3. isim In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.

   “Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.”

4. isim 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, An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.”

5. isim Synonym of double bogey.
6. isim A fighter plane.
7. isim The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy.
8. isim A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate).
9. isim A bastard.
10. özel isim A surname from Old French.