bouffe
See also: bouffé
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /buf/
- Rhymes: -uːf
Etymology 1
From French bouffe.
Noun
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- (music) A comic opera
- 2007, January 9, “Anne Midgette”, in Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd:
- Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna […] .
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Derived terms
- opera bouffe
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “it's either borrowed from French bouffer or truncated from bouffant”)
Verb
bouffe (third-person singular simple present bouffes, present participle bouffing, simple past and past participle bouffed)
- (transitive) To make bouffant.
- I thought about bouffing my hair again.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /buf/
Audio (file)
Etymology 1
From Italian buffo.
Noun
bouffe m (plural bouffes)
- singer of comic operas (bouffes)
- comic opera
Derived terms
- opéra bouffe
Adjective
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- comic, amusing
Etymology 2
From bouffer.
Noun
bouffe f (plural bouffes)
- (slang) grub (food)
Derived terms
- bouffe de rue
Verb
bouffe
- inflection of bouffer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “bouffe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.