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boffin::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | research worker, investigator, researcher |
Examples of boffin
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Whose the boffin responsible, Was it Thatcher's man, was she an environmentalist?
From the guardian.co.uk
In fact, all this crazy boffin stuff is what makes the hippy bonfires possible.
From the guardian.co.uk
Next, along comes boffin Andrew Grous who puts a price on the change to two wheels.
From the guardian.co.uk
The British boffin is not making a secret return because he never went away.
From the badlanguage.net
These are artificial actors created on the desk of a special-effects boffin.
From the independent.co.uk
He wants to shatter forever the image of the scientist as an isolated, nerdy boffin.
From the newscientist.com
Sometimes, it is simply about boldly going where no boffin had gone before.
From the economist.com
Perhaps it would be absurd for the scripts to keep presenting him as a harmless boffin.
From the economist.com
The trap would be to write Norton off as some sort of eccentric boffin.
From the nzherald.co.nz
- (British slang) a scientist or technician engaged in military research
- In the slang of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, boffins are scientists, medical doctors, engineers, and other people engaged in technical or scientific research. ...
- Hobbits are a fictional race in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books. They first appear in The Hobbit and play an important role in the book The Lord of the Rings.
- Boffin is a platform game released in 1985 by Addictive Games for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro. It was written by 17 year old Paul Julian O'Malley, who at the time was a resident of Romsey, Hampshire, UK. There are two versions of the game that were released together.
- British tabloid term for a scientist. Not to be confused with buffoon.
- Person involved in research, particularly technical research.
- N. A boffin is someone who is particularly knowledgeable about his/her subject. Slightly less friendly than expert, calling someone a boffin suggests (much like nerd) that they have body odour and are virgins. Boffins are invariably male.
- N. 1. A bright but probably eccentric scientist who likely deals in a very unusual area (as a research or think tank scientist).
- Nick. 'bonfin,' a name of endearment. Bon, good ; fin, fine, delicate. Some instances have been printed Bossin and Bosyn (i.e. s not f), but I strongly suspect this is a misreading of the text. If it be so, the surname so familiar to Oxford citizens existed in the vicinity six centuries ago. ...
