BOFFIN


Meaning of BOFFIN in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A few science boffins were asked for their opinions, but otherwise the article gave very little information.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Government boffins have been explaining a new weapon that destroys people but leaves houses intact.

Oldfield was never conferred with boffin status, unlike his contemporary, Mr Ambient himself, Brian Eno.

Perhaps the boffins in the boats at Scapa ought to swallow their compassion and get equally coercive with the whales.

The boffin claims to be able to lower bust-up ratios by analysing responses to statements about their lifestyles.

Their boffins used sophisticated hospital scanners to mould the exact shape of Schuey's head to within one-tenth of a millimetre.

This was contrary to the opinion of the world and society which thought of him as a boffin .

Three wore the white coats of the back-room boffin , the fourth was diminutive, little more than a boy.

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