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biffing

biffing is the present participle and gerund of biff.

Meaning of biff

Verb

biff (third-person singular simple present biffs, present participle biffing, simple past and past participle biffed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To punch or hit.
    • ‘But ’twas Fitzgerald who was goin’ to biff Malone, man, can’t you understand?’ old Tom interrupted.1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 79
  2. (Atlantic-Canada, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
  3. (informal) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
  4. (informal) To mess up.
  5. (intransitive) To move quickly.

See all 8 meanings of biff

Noun

biffing (plural biffings)

  1. (informal) A hitting or punching.
    • And amidst the biffings and beatings and bleedings, Chuckie, who only defended the Man because he was famous, began to see an absurdity in this hatred, in this fear.1996, Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street, page 31

Forms of biffing

pluralbiffings

Questions about biffing

What does biffing mean?
Biffing means a hitting or punching.
What is biffing the present participle and gerund of?
Biffing is the present participle and gerund of biff.
What part of speech is biffing?
Biffing is a noun.
What is the plural of biffing?
The plural of biffing is biffings.

Words near biffing in the dictionary

  1. biffers
  2. Biffie
  3. biffies
  4. biffin
  5. Biffin's bridge
  6. biffing
  7. biffings
  8. biffins
  9. Biffle
  10. Biffles
  11. biffo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: biffing (page history and authors); biff (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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