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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

wap bafre

Do you mean bafle (bah-f-lay)?

bafre (pronounced bah-f-ray)
to beat up, to hammer, to knock somebody around.

bafle (pronounced bah-f-lay)
to stuff your face with more than necessary, to be greedy, to eat voraciously

Examples:
1.  Li bafre mesye a anba kout pwen.
     He punched the man around real good.

2.  Nou bafre lòt ekip la anba gòl.
     We hammered the other team with a lot of goals.

3.  Li te si tèlman grangou li bafle manje a san kraze.
     He was so hungry he gobbled down the food.

4.  Pran san w non!  Poukisa w'ap bafle manje a konsa?
     Take your time!  Why are stuffing your face so much?

Other Creole synonyms for bafre (to pummel, to crush) arebastonnen, toupizi, demanbre, toufounen, kofre, demachwele, filange, sabote

Other Creole synonyms for bafle (to glut, to overindulge) are: vale, fè voras, foulonnen, boure

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