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beaufin

beaufin is the archaic form of biffin.

Meaning of biffin

Noun

biffin (plural biffins)

  1. A deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.
  2. Such an apple baked and flattened as a snack, popular in Norfolk.
    • […] there were Norfolk Biffins, squab and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, […]1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Three. The Second of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 82

Forms of beaufin

pluralbeaufins

Questions about beaufin

What is beaufin the archaic form of?
Beaufin is the archaic form of biffin.

Words near beaufin in the dictionary

  1. beaued
  2. beaufet
  3. beaufets
  4. beauffet
  5. beauffets
  6. beaufin
  7. beaufins
  8. Beauford
  9. Beaufords
  10. Beaufort
  11. Beaufort boil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: beaufin (page history and authors); biffin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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