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/ˈbʌzəɹd/ · noun
Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail..
Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.
1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142, An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.
Use buzzard when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Buzzard means Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail..
Common synonyms include buteo, broadwing, turkey vulture, vulture.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.
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