bouffe
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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.
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