bouffe

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See also: bouffé

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French bouffe.

Noun

bouffe (plural bouffes)

  1. (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 .
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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)

  1. (transitive) To make bouffant.
    I thought about bouffing my hair again.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buf/
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian buffo.

Noun

bouffe m (plural bouffes)

  1. singer of comic operas (bouffes)
  2. comic opera
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Adjective

bouffe (plural bouffes)

  1. comic, amusing

Etymology 2

From bouffer.

Noun

bouffe f (countable and uncountable, plural bouffes)

  1. (informal) grub (food)
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Verb

bouffe

  1. inflection of bouffer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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