The bouffard Surname
bouffard Name Meaning and History
French: nickname for a glutton, a pejorative term from Old French
bouffer ‘to stuff oneself’, earlier ‘to puff out the cheeks’ (a
word probably of imitative origin).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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