büffeln

Meaning

to swot, cram (study with effort)

Concepts

swot

cram

drum

🥁

get up

grind away

learn

mug up

bone

🦴

swot up

bone up

Synonyms

pauken

lernen

auswendig lernen

aneignen

bimsen

erlernen

studieren

memorieren

erwärmen

☀️

beleben

niedersäbeln

aufwärmen

sich abrackern

stampfen

Streber

beheizen

verprügeln

brüten

erhitzen

zerbrechen

Translations

bûcher

blokken

potasser

bachoter

empollar

scannarsi

hafızlamak

ineklemek

piocher

bosser

chiader

sgobbare

marrar

estudiar

hengsten

Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

oggse

Basel-Landschaft

schanze

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʏfəln/

Etymology

According to Kluge, from Büffel (“buffalo”), from its use as a working animal. Pfeifer considers it to have originally been an intensive form of büffen (“to puff, to push”), obsolete alternative form of puffen, with the meaning gained by folk-etymological association with Büffel.