
ETYMOLOGY
from buffle (buffalo; a fool) + brained (having a brain of the specific kind)
EXAMPLE
“…An’ there we would swing, an’ hang there we must,
Till the hoodoo was busted. Eternally cussed,
So he said, was the buffle-brained feller that dared
To touch the witch-web that was holding us snared…”
From: Up in Maine:
Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
– Holman Day, 1900
I know just the place for this one…
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