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)
- 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
- To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
- To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
- To mess up.
- To move quickly.
Noun
biffing (plural biffings)
- 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
| plural | biffings |
|---|
Questions about biffing
Words near biffing in the dictionary
Source and license
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.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “biffing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/biffing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
