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Bouffe

//buf// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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[…]."

  2. 2
    opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To make bouffant. transitive

    "I thought about bouffing my hair again."

Etymology

From French bouffe.

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