bouffer
French, verb/bu.fe/
bouffer is spelled B-O-U-F-F-E-R (7 letters) and appears 9.5 times per million words in written French, the 6,944th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bouffer is a French verb meaning “to eat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enfler les joues”.
What does bouffer mean in English?
verb
- 1
colloquialto eat
J'ai la dalle, j'ai pas encore bouffé.
- 2
colloquialto eat, to worry
Tous ces problèmes avec ma femme, ça me bouffe.
- 3
colloquialto consume in excess
Cette bagnole bouffe quinze litres aux cent facilement.
- 4
colloquialto bash (criticise harshly)
Ce soir, on va bouffer du curé.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Enfler les joues. 2. Se soutenir de soi-même, avoir du volume au lieu de s’aplatir, en parlant de certaines étoffes, ou des cheveux. 3. Gonfler, en parlant de plâtre et pousser en dehors, en parlant d’un mur. 4. Enfler dans le four par l’effet de la chaleur, en parlant d’un pain.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bouffer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bouffant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bouffé participle past
- bouffe first-person indicative present
- bouffes indicative present second-person
- bouffons first-person indicative plural
- bouffez indicative plural present
- bouffent indicative plural present
- bouffais first-person imperfect indicative
- bouffait imperfect indicative singular
- bouffions first-person imperfect indicative
- bouffiez imperfect indicative plural
- bouffaient imperfect indicative plural
- bouffai first-person historic indicative
- bouffas historic indicative past
- bouffa historic indicative past
- bouffâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bouffer?
- /bu.fe/
- \bu.fe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bouffer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bouffer in French?
bouffer appears 9.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).