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Re:Stanford Natural Language Parser by eriknstr on Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:04PM (#13453376)
The Wikipedia article above says that though uncommon in usage, the buffalo verbs in that sentence mean "to bully, harass, or intimidate" or "to baffle".
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Re:Stanford Natural Language Parser by jholman on Saturday January 21, 2017 @11:48PM (#13453631)
AIUI, it's only "to bully" in the sense of verbally overwhelming someone into believing what you what them to believe. It's like the word "to snow" (in the sense that means "to con").
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Re:Stanford Natural Language Parser by douche on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:09AM (#13453701)
I would read "buffaloing" somebody as a less vulgar version of bullshitting, which is also a way of lying about something, mostly to get them to buy something they don't actually need.
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