bouffe

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noun

A comic opera

“I thought about bouffing my hair again.”

Similar
comic operaopera bouffeopera comique
OriginFrench bouffe ← Italian buffo →
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Meanings

bouffe1

nounbouffe (plural bouffes)

plural bouffes

  1. entertainmentA comic opera

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

    2007 January 9, Anne Midgette, “Retrofitting Operetta for a 21st-Century Crowd”, in New York Times

bouffe2

verbbouffe (third-person singular simple present bouffes, present participle bouffing, simple past and past participle bouffed)

present singular third person bouffes · participle present bouffing · participle past bouffed · past bouffed

  1. transitiveTo make bouffant.

    I thought about bouffing my hair again.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounopera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken

Similar
comic operaopera bouffeopera comique
Broader
opera
Also see
comic operaopera bouffe

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Italianbuffo
  2. Frenchbouffe
  3. Englishbouffe

Borrowed from French bouffe.

More words from French

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with bouffe

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Cite this entry
APA

bouffe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouffe

MLA

“bouffe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouffe. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bouffe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bouffe.

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