soufflé
/ˈsuːfleɪ/US/suːˈfleɪ/
soufflé noun: a baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
Noun
soufflé (countable and uncountable, plural soufflés)
- A baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
- Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
Adjective
soufflé (not comparable)
- Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of colour, as if blown from a bellows.
Verb
soufflé (third-person singular simple present soufflés, present participle souffléing, simple past and past participle souffléed or souffléd)
- To prepare as a soufflé.
- It is quite possible that the first attempt at souffléing potatoes may be a failure.1931, Elizabeth Lucas, Vegetable Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd, page 227
- Our lockers were on the floor, gear intermixed in heaps, as if King Kong had souffléed the room with an eggbeater the size of the Eiffel Tower.1994, Gus Lee, “Rituals”, in Honor and Duty, New York, N.Y.: Borzoi Books, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 79
- To whirl around or beat violently.
- The July Revolution's promises have been fricasseed, liberties ground into salamis, the budget souffléd, republicans put up as marmalade, public order fried, politesse burned, and glory boiled.2010, Amy Wiese Forbes, The Satiric Decade, page 180
- Case pictured his pasty-faced mother talking her way out of being souffléd alive by pasty-faced nasties.2011, Frank Omar, Me...And the Undead, page 94
- To give a light, airy, and/or fluffy texture to, especially if done by whipping or blowing.
- Designed by Shannon Rodgers for Jerry Silverman, in ivory souffléd wool tweed.1963, Vogue - Volume 142, page 17
- The fabrics — some 25,000 yards of them — form an extraordinary collection, ranging from 69¢ domestic cottons to souffléd mohairs, Hong Kong silks and haute couture fabrics from the Rue de la Paix .1965, Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life, page 14
- To make lighthearted, witty, or whimsical.
- Feeling that he must bring his subject down to the level of a layman's comprehension, the author has outdone himself in preparing a style picturesque and souffléd enough to do the trick requested.1912, Book Review Digest, page 366
- And if you want to meditate on social significances, ask yourself what America would be like if our natural Angloid heaviness of temper had not been fermented and souffléd by such diverse racial strains?1940, Book-of-the-Month Club News, page 4
- To puff up or bloat.
- Not a rite-of-passage rash-and-fever, not a week eating ice cream on the sofa, this was not chickenpox but a biblical plague the month before he turned two, his skinny frame covered entire with pennysized bulbs sagging, fat with neon green pus, as though he had been mummified in bubble wrap, victim...2014, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Boom!
- The long polished table like the deck of his uncle Hugo's yacht, the partridge with bread sauce, the club claret, the white heads in black tie, the souffléd features of accountants, lawyers, civil servants, bankers, teachers, all scrambling to recall each other's nicknames for the chance to voice...2020, Nicholas Shakespeare, The Sandpit
soufflé meaning in Arabic, Malay and Thai
soufflé in Arabic
- baked dish
- نَّفيخة
soufflé in Malay
- baked dish
- sufle
soufflé in Thai
- baked dish
- ซูเฟล suu-flêe
Examples of soufflé in a sentence
- [Phyllis] Richman also criticized a French baby food cookbook that “would have mother spend her time stuffing trout and souffléing oranges for her toddler.”2014, Amy Bentley, “Natural Food, Natural Motherhood, and the Turn toward Homemade: The 1970s to the 1990s”, in Inventing Baby Food: Taste...
- Wild thoughts ran through Jessica's mind – had she been kidnapped, abducted, souffléd by Syrians? – before the voices at the front door carried.2017, Jamie Bernthal, Jessica Brick Investigates, page 47:
- Donovan looked for a place to throw Ivan and Ivan could sense this, but he wasn't excited about getting souffléd onto a wooden floor.2018, T. Edwin Robertson, Wrestler II, page 110:
- Suddenly faces go beautifully frail (not pale) – with a delicious new kind of makeup: the sheerest fluff of souffléd color-in-creme!1965, Mademoiselle: The Magazine for the Smart Young Woman vol 61, page 36:
Forms of soufflé
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | soufflés |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | soufflés |
| present participle | souffléing |
| past participle | souffléed |
| past | souffléed |
| past participle | souffléd |
| past | souffléd |
Origin of soufflé
Unadapted borrowing from French soufflé, from souffler (“to puff”).
Words formed from soufflé
Questions about soufflé
- What does soufflé mean?
- Soufflé means a baked dish made from beaten egg whites and various other ingredients, usually prepared and served in a small earthenware bowl (ramekin).
- What is soufflé in Arabic?
- Soufflé in Arabic is نَّفيخة. See Soufflé meaning in Arabic.
- How do you use soufflé in a sentence?
- [Phyllis] Richman also criticized a French baby food cookbook that “would have mother spend her time stuffing trout and souffléing oranges for her toddler.”
- What part of speech is soufflé?
- Soufflé can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce soufflé?
- Soufflé is pronounced /ˈsuːfleɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of soufflé?
- The plural of soufflé is soufflés.
Words near soufflé in the dictionary
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