Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An excellent cooking-apple cultivated in England, especially in the county of Norfolk. It is often sold in a dried and flattened condition.
- noun Hence A baked apple crushed into a flat round cake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
- noun A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a deep-red cooking
apple native toBritain .
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Examples
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All the fruit was not edible, for we saw an apple that tasted very much of the wood, being full of pips resembling doll's tea-things; whilst, upon suction, the pears emitted musical sounds; and a biffin, like a pincushion, had the flavour of bran -- probably it was bran-new.
Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please?”
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please?”
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please? "
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I nearly done in me first ol 'man by biffin' the chopper at 'is nob, and Lawd, the lies I bin an' tol 'me second only yesterday. "
Living Alone Stella Benson 1912
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please? "
The Holly-Tree Charles Dickens 1841
qms commented on the word biffin
While a flag with a dragon or griffin
Might make a lordly spine stiffen,
To a stout Norfolk yeoman
The ennobling omen
Is a cake of his fine native biffin.
February 24, 2014
bilby commented on the word biffin
Another QMS classic. Far out.
May 4, 2024
bilby commented on the word biffin
Biff, Betty and Bill buffed a big bellyful of beefy baked biffins.
May 4, 2024