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bouffer

Meaning

  1. (colloquial, intransitive, transitive) to eat
  2. (colloquial, figuratively, transitive) to eat, to worry
  3. (colloquial, transitive) to consume in excess
  4. (colloquial, transitive) to bash (criticise harshly)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bu.fe/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old French bouffer, originally "to puff up," from Medieval Latin buffa, itself echoic of puffing out cheeks.

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