souffléing

Verb

soufflé (third-person singular simple present soufflés, present participle souffléing, simple past and past participle souffléed or souffléd)

1. (transitive) 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
2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) 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
3. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) 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
4. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) 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
5. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) 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!

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