Buffalo Bill
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- proper noun
- /ˈbʌf.ə.loʊ bɪl/
- Every summer, we visit the annual festival celebrating Buffalo Bill and his legendary performances.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- Buffalo Bill's Wild
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- And then the next guy was the real Buffalo Bill.
Examples
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Children at the museum loved learning about Buffalo Bill and his adventures in the American West.
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Gosh, and the Buffalo Bill show is coming here next Monday.
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Although I suspect the children are more eager to see Buffalo Bill than they are to see the President.
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And we'd be mighty proud to have her with the Buffalo Bill show.
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West show with the one and only Annie Oakley is breaking camp for a tour of Europe.
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Why, dog my cats, in exactly two weeks and four days, the Buffalo Bill Wild West show will be putting on the dad-bustedest parade up Fifth Avenue that was ever gawked at by man or critter.
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Buffalo Bill's fascinating Wild West shows captivated audiences across the nation.
Synonyms
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6.6
An American performer and hunter who made the Wild West famous
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6.1
A famous American performer and scout who traveled with the Wild West Show as Buffalo Bill
Surface Forms
Morphology
buffalo + Bill
Although the constituents 'buffalo' and 'Bill' are lexically transparent, the specific meaning — a historical nickname for William F. Cody, a famous showman — cannot be derived from those words. Proper names and nicknames are culturally specific and often arbitrary, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituent words would not infer this referent.
Etymology
Buffalo Bill is the nickname of William F. Cody. As a young hunter he killed many buffalo and people called him Bill for William, so he became known as Buffalo Bill and later used that name as a famous 'showman' in traveling 'Wild West shows'.