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buzzard

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1. buzzard - Noun

2. buzzard - Adjective

3. Buzzard - Proper noun

Meaning

A bird of prey of the Hawk family, belonging to the genus Buteo and related genera.

A blockhead; a dunce.

Senseless; stupid.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything. William Faulkner

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. Ernest Hemingway

A young man with dark circles under his eyes was propping himself up against a penny-in-the-slot machine. An undertaker, passing at that moment, would have looked at this young man sharply, scenting business. So would a buzzard. P. G. Wodehouse

The buzzard told the monkey "You're chokin' me Release your hold and I'll set you free" The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye and said "Your story's touching but it sounds like a lie." Nat King Cole

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. Cy Young

You cannot make a hawk of a buzzard. French Proverb

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