Definition of "soufflé"
soufflé
verb
third-person singular simple present soufflés, present participle souffléing, simple past and past participle souffléed or souffléd
(cooking, transitive) To prepare as a soufflé.
Quotations
[Phyllis] Richman also criticized a French baby food cookbook that “would have mother spend her time stuffing trout and souffléing oranges for her toddler.”
2014, Amy Bentley, “Natural Food, Natural Motherhood, and the Turn toward Homemade: The 1970s to the 1990s”, in Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet (California Studies in Food and Culture; 51), Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, page 112
(transitive, figurative, by extension) To treat analogously to the way one prepares a soufflé.
To whirl around or beat violently.
Quotations
But it is hard not to smile when you are having fun, including while you are in midair a er being body-locked, halfway through the process of being suplexed (more like souffléd in my case) by an extremely competent opponent twenty years younger and twenty pounds heavier.
2022, Joseph Bruchac, A Year of Moons: Stories From The Adirondack Foothills
To make lighthearted, witty, or whimsical.
Quotations
This period also saw the triumph of the operetta, which satirized and souffléd the tragic love plots of grand opera.
1998, Sally Banes, “The Romantic Ballet”, in Dancing Women: Female Bodies on Stage, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, section “Coppélia and the “decline” of French nineteenth-century ballet”, page 36
Quotations
Not a rite-of-passage rash-and-fever, not a week eating ice cream on the sofa, this was not chickenpox but a biblical plague the month before he turned two, his skinny frame covered entire with pennysized bulbs sagging, fat with neon green pus, as though he had been mummified in bubble wrap, victim of the world's bees, skin around the pustules souffléd with red welts, coat of monstrous nipples.
2014, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Boom!
The long polished table like the deck of his uncle Hugo's yacht, the partridge with bread sauce, the club claret, the white heads in black tie, the souffléd features of accountants, lawyers, civil servants, bankers, teachers, all scrambling to recall each other's nicknames for the chance to voice them once again.
2020, Nicholas Shakespeare, The Sandpit