buffo

From Italian buffo

buffo (plural buffos)

1. (music) A comic singer, particularly in comic opera
   • 2007, January 27, “Vivien Schweitzer”, in Young Lovers, a Vespa and a Frolic by Rossini‎:

     Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico.

From Medieval Latin buffa, itself echoic of puffing out cheeks.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuf.fo/

buffo (feminine singular buffa, masculine plural buffi, feminine plural buffe)

1. funny, comical, amusing
2. strange, odd
3. whimsical
4. playful
5. (slang) debt

• buffone

buffo

1. first-person singular present indicative of buffare