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Synonyms for bufflehead

  • noun

Most common

woolhead dipper butterball bone head pin-head dunce

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Woolhead — A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola

woolhead, butterbox US

2. Dipper

dipper, butterball

Other

bone head, pin-head, dunce, lunkhead informal

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola.

Related words

Other spellings
buffelhead

Forms

Plural
buffleheads → woolheads, butterboxes, dippers, butterballs…

Example sentences

  • dipper Tom can recognize the Big Dipper and Orion.
  • dunce Tom had to wear a dunce cap.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
buffleheadfalling
dipperfalling
butterballsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
dunce
6 letters
dipper2
8 letters
lunkhead, woolhead
9 letters
butterbox
10 letters
butterball3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dipper2 = 2 syllables).