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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French bouffe.
Noun
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- (music) A comic opera
2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in New York Times:Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna .
Derived terms
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
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Italian buffo.
Noun
bouffe m (plural bouffes)
- singer of comic operas (bouffes)
- comic opera
Derived terms
Adjective
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- comic, amusing
Etymology 2
From bouffer.
Noun
bouffe f (countable and uncountable, plural bouffes)
- (informal) grub (food)
Derived terms
Verb
bouffe
- inflection of bouffer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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