English

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 […] .

French

Noun

bouffe f ‎(plural bouffes)

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

Derived terms

• bouffer
• bouffeur
• bouffable

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