buffalo gnat

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Origin of buffalo gnat

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25

Words nearby buffalo gnat

buffalo carpet beetle, buffalo chips, buffalo cloth, buffalo currant, buffalofish, buffalo gnat, buffalo grass, Buffalo Grove, buffalo plaid, buffalo robe, buffalo soldier

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How to use buffalo gnat in a sentence

Buffalo ranked tenth in the nation, while Detroit and Pittsburgh ranked twelth and thirteenth, respectively.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead|Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A remarkable snowstorm plowed through Buffalo, New York on Tuesday.
WATCH: "Lake Effect" Snowstorm Batters Buffalo|The Daily Beast Video|November 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After he graduated high school, Stasio enrolled at the University at Buffalo and entered the ROTC program.
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Buffalo has been growing again, but it does not have 370,000 millionaires like New York City has.
Andrew Cuomo Ignores Rural New York|David Fontana|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

They asked the director of the Buffalo Zoo for some wallaby hair.
Ebola's Roots Are 50 Times Older Than Mankind. And That Could Be the Key to Stopping It.|Michael Daly|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One or two of the buffalo-hunters exchanged words with us while Mac was building his cigarette and lighting it.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
At Buffalo, where this fountain was exhibited, it received honorable mention.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Tom leaped on one side; the buffalo-bull turned short round and made another dash at him.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
And from my roost I could note the passing of anything bigger than a buffalo yearling, within a radius of at least six miles.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for buffalo gnat

buffalo gnat

noun

any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family SimuliidaeAlso called: black fly

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