Bouffe

  

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Bouffe

Definition: Bouffe

Bouffe

Noun

1. Opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bouffe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Etymology: Bouffe \Bouffe\, noun. [French expression, buffoon.]. (Websters 1913)

"Bouffe" is a common misspelling or typo for: bluff, bluffed, bluffer, bouffant, buff, buffer, buffet, buffo.


Synonyms: Bouffe

Synonyms: comic opera (n), opera bouffe (n), opera comique (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Bouffe

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

The Drama

Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Bouffe

English words defined with "bouffe": opera bouffe. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bouffe" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (food, grub, nosh).

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Modern Usage: Bouffe

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Grande bouffe (1973)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Bouffe

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Bouffe

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Adah Richmond's Operetta Bouffe Troupe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Evangeline Rice and Goodwin's American opera bouffe. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Expressions: Bouffe

Expressions using "bouffe": opera bouffe Op'era bouffe. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bouffe

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bouffe

11

la grande bouffe

6

bouffe troyen

3

bouffe broue

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bouffe

Language Translations for "bouffe"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

vígopera (comic opera, opera bouffe), opera buffa (opera bouffe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouffebay

   

Portuguese

  

cômico (buffo, comedian, comic, comical, funny, humorist, humourist, laughable, waggish). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bouffe

Derivations

Words beginning with "bouffe": bouffes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bouffe

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-f-o-u"

-1 letter: buffo.

-2 letters: boff, buff.

-3 letters: eff, feu, fob, foe, fou, fub, obe, off.

-4 letters: be, bo, ef, oe, of.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-f-o-u"
 

+1 letter: bouffes.

 

+3 letters: buffaloed, buffaloes.

 

+4 letters: buffoonery, outbluffed, snuffboxes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bouffe


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6F 75 66 66 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ---    ..-    ..-.    ..-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101111 01110101 01100110 01100110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#111 &#117 &#102 &#102 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006F 0075 0066 0066 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368187727271

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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