buffalo, you old

buffalo, you old
   In Gone With The Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. Scarlett O’Hara would like to call Mrs Merriwether ‘you old buffalo’, but does not have the courage to do so. She merely says it to herself, and thinks ‘how heavenly it would be to tell you just what I think of you’. In the USA ‘buffalo’ is sometimes used for the bison, a hairy cow-like creature. The expression Scarlett has in mind is therefore an alternative form of ‘you old cow’.

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