bouffe

Etymology

From French.

Noun

bouffe (plural bouffes)

1. (music) A comic opera
   • 2007, January 9, “Anne Midgette”, in Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd‎:

     Born as a French satiric form with the bouffes of Jacques Offenbach in the 1850s, it moved on, like most Parisian fashions, to Vienna […] .

Verb

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.

Noun

bouffe f (plural bouffes)

1. (slang) grub (food)
2. singer of comic operas (bouffes)

Verb

bouffe

1. first-person singular present indicative of bouffer
2. third-person singular present indicative of bouffer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouffer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of bouffer
5. second-person singular imperative of bouffer

Further reading

• “bouffe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).