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bouffe

US/buf/

bouffe noun: a comic opera.

Noun

bouffe (plural bouffes)

  1. A 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

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.

bouffe meaning in Tamil

bouffe in Tamil

பகடிக் கூத்து, கிண்டல் இசைநாடகம்

Forms of bouffe

Noun
pluralbouffes
Verb
third-person singular presentbouffes
present participlebouffing
past participlebouffed
pastbouffed

Origin of bouffe

Borrowed from French bouffe.

Words formed from bouffe

Phrases with bouffe

Words that rhyme with bouffe

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about bouffe

What does bouffe mean?
Bouffe means a comic opera.
What is bouffe in Tamil?
Bouffe in Tamil is பகடிக் கூத்து, கிண்டல் இசைநாடகம். See Bouffe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bouffe?
Bouffe can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce bouffe?
Bouffe is pronounced /buf/ (US).
What is the plural of bouffe?
The plural of bouffe is bouffes.

Words near bouffe in the dictionary

  1. bouffantly
  2. bouffants
  3. bouffanty
  4. Bouffard
  5. Bouffards
  6. bouffe
  7. bouffed
  8. bouffes
  9. bouffing
  10. bouffon
  11. bouffons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bouffe (page history and authors); bouffe (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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