Buffo vs Biffo - What's the difference?
buffo | biffo |
(music) A comic singer, particularly in comic opera
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 27, Vivien Schweitzer, Young Lovers, a Vespa and a Frolic by Rossini, New York Times
, passage=Signor Bruschino was updated from a generic buffo character to an oily, scholarly-looking, suit-clad neurotic, excellently acted and sung by Marco Nistico. }}
----
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Violence, fighting; a fight.
* 2006 , Christine Matzke, Susanne Muehleisen, Postcolonial Postmortems: Crime Fiction from a Transcultural Perspective ,
* 2005 , , A Man's Got to Have a Hobby ,
* 2010 , Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing ,
As nouns the difference between buffo and biffo
is that buffo is a comic singer, particularly in comic opera while biffo is violence, fighting; a fight.buffo
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
biffo
English
Noun
(-)- There was too much biffo going on at that club, so I left .
page 236,
- Barrett's working class man is simply one who enjoys his beer, his rock music (like Norton, he's a man in his early thirties), and a bit of biffo .
unnumbered page,
- We all liked a bit of biffo and gunplay, so when the telecast was broken for a newsflash, everyone groaned.
page 207,
- Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.