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boffiny

boffiny adjective: like a boffin; nerdy.

Adjective

boffiny (comparative more boffiny, superlative most boffiny)

  1. (informal) Like a boffin; nerdy.
    • He is just annoyed because he was refused entry last year on grounds of not being boffiny enough. Which is frightening as James can recite all the books of the Bible, and the periodic table, off by heart, in song.2013, Joanna Nadin, The Rachel Riley Diaries: The Meaning of Life
    • […] but at some key point in my so-called decade-long tenure there was a key piece of research that the boffiny NME publishing bigwiggoes indulged in.2022, Simon Williams, Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Forms of boffiny

comparativemore boffiny
superlativemost boffiny

Origin of boffiny

From boffin + -y.

Questions about boffiny

What does boffiny mean?
Boffiny means like a boffin; nerdy.
What part of speech is boffiny?
Boffiny is an adjective.

Words near boffiny in the dictionary

  1. boffing
  2. boffinish
  3. boffinism
  4. boffinry
  5. boffins
  6. boffiny
  7. boffo
  8. boffola
  9. boffolas
  10. boffos
  11. boffs

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