bouffe

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

Borrowed from French bouffe.

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 […] .

• opera bouffe

(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”)

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.

• IPA^(key): /buf/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Borrowed from Italian buffo.

bouffe m (plural bouffes)

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

• opéra bouffe

bouffe (plural bouffes)

1. comic, amusing

From bouffer.

bouffe f (countable and uncountable, plural bouffes)

1. (informal) grub (food)

• bouffe de rue

bouffe

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

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