sb. and a. [a. It. buffo adj., comical, burlesque: see BUFFOON.]
A. sb. A comic actor, a singer in a comic opera. B. as adj. Belonging to or characteristic of a buffo; comic, burlesque.
1764. Foote, Patron, I. i. A rank impostor, the bufo of an illiberal mercenary tribe.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 177. They … sung a thousand buffo songs.
1821. Byron, Juan, IV. lxxxi. The buffo of the party.
1850. L. Hunt, Autobiog., ii. (1860), 42. Every burlesque or buffo song, of any pretension, was pretty sure to be Italian.
1851. Kingsley, Yeast, xiii. 237. Genial earnest buffo humour here and there.
