bouffe

See also: bouffé

English

Etymology

From French.

Noun

bouffe (plural bouffes)

  1. (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 [] .

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

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Noun

bouffe f (plural bouffes)

  1. (slang) grub (food)
  2. singer of comic operas (bouffes)

Derived terms

Verb

bouffe

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bouffer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of bouffer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouffer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouffer
  5. second-person singular imperative of bouffer

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