buffa

From Italian buffa. See buffo and buffoon.

buffa (plural buffas)

1. (music) The comic actress in an opera.

• opera buffa

• “buffa”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Clipping of buffetti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbufːɑ/, [ˈbufːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ufːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): buf‧fa
• Hyphenation^(key): buf‧fa

buffa

1. (colloquial) buffet

   Synonyms: buffetti, noutopöytä, seisova pöytä

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuf.fa/
• Rhymes: -uffa
• Hyphenation: bùf‧fa

buffa

1. feminine singular of buffo

buffa

1. inflection of buffare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuf.fa/
• Rhymes: -uffa

buffa f

1. feminine singular of buffu

buffa f (plural buffi)

1. female equivalent of buffu: female clown

From Latin būfō (“toad”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuf.fa/, [ˈbːu.fːa]
• Rhymes: -uffa
• Hyphenation: bùf‧fa

buffa f (plural buffi)

1. toad (Bufo bufo)
2. (derogatory) fat woman

• → Italian: buffa (regional)
• → Italian: Buffa

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 455: “il rospo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Traina, Antonino (1868), “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 574
• Pasqualino (c. 1790), “buffa”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 1, page 214
• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862), “buffa”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 120

buffa (present buffar, preterite buffade, supine buffat, imperative buffa)

1. push, shove, nudge, jostle