boffola
English
Etymology
Noun
boffola (plural boffolas)
- A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.
- 1961, Al Hine, Lord love a duck, page 215:
- "You're here to set off skyrockets for Barbara Anne, not to regale us with the steam-room boffolas of Beverly Hills." "Well, I thought it was a cute story," Mr. Blakelee said.
- 1979, Newsweek (volume 94, part 2, page 70)
- You laugh all the harder because the movie never winds up to hit you with a boffola.
- 1992, Jib Fowles, Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, page 119:
- These are the people whose laughter you hear after the boffolas on shows that have been filmed without audiences. I don't suppose all these laughers are dead, but a lot of them must be by this time.