bouffe
See also: bouffé
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /buf/
- Rhymes: -uːf
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- (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 edit
Etymology 2 edit
(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 edit
bouffe (third-person singular simple present bouffes, present participle bouffing, simple past and past participle bouffed)
- (transitive) To make bouffant.
- I thought about bouffing my hair again.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bouffe m (plural bouffes)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
bouffe (plural bouffes)
- comic, amusing
Etymology 2 edit
From bouffer.
Noun edit
bouffe f (countable and uncountable, plural bouffes)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
bouffe
- inflection of bouffer:
Further reading edit
- “bouffe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.