bouffe

See also: bouffé

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /buf/
• Rhymes: -uːf

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^[1]:

     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

• 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)

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

Derived terms

• opéra bouffe

Adjective

bouffe (plural bouffes)

1. comic, amusing

Etymology 2

From bouffer.

Noun

bouffe f (countable and uncountable, plural bouffes)

1. (informal) grub (food)

Derived terms

• bouffe de rue

Verb

bouffe

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

Further reading

• “bouffe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.