[soo-fley, soo-fley] 
noun, adjective, verb, -fléed, -flé⋅ing.| 1. | a light baked dish made fluffy with beaten egg whites combined with egg yolks, white sauce, and fish, cheese, or other ingredients. |
| 2. | a similar dish made with fruit juices, chocolate, vanilla, etc., and served as dessert. |
| 3. | Also, souf⋅fléed. puffed up; made light, as by beating and cooking. |
| 4. | to make (food) puffed up and light, as by beating and cooking, adding stiffly beaten egg whites, etc.; make resemble a soufflé: to soufflé leftover mashed potatoes. |
| souf·flé (sōō-flā') n. A light, fluffy baked dish made with egg yolks and beaten egg whites combined with various other ingredients and served as a main dish or sweetened as a dessert. [French, from past participle of souffler, to puff up, from Old French soffler, from Latin sufflāre : sub-, sub- + flāre, to blow; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.] souf·flé' adj., souf·fléd' adj. |