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Growing up my great grandmother used "Bufflehead" to describe someone stupid, clumsy, but without malicious intent, as in
"That buffleheaded cousinah yours tripped feeding the hogs and they all got loose. Took your uncle Max n' Sterling 3 hours to catch em all." It is the name of this rather handsome bird: Also in the freekin 1600s it meant "simpleton". Where did she LEARN this word?! I want to know how she picked it up, who gave it to her.
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