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boffin

[ bof-in ]

noun

British Slang.
  1. a scientist or technical expert.


boffin

/ 藞产蓲蹿瑟苍 /

noun

  1. informal.
    a scientist, esp one carrying out military research
  2. a person who has extensive skill or knowledge in a particular field

    a Treasury boffin

  3. informal.
    someone who is considered to be very clever, often to the exclusion of all non-academic interests
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of boffin1

First recorded in 1940鈥45; origin uncertain
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of boffin1

C20: of uncertain origin
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Example Sentences

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The IMF's boffins say they can start to see the impact from space as satellites track fewer, increasingly empty ships leaving China's ports.

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In that reused Red Box will be a boffin鈥檚 Budget.

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The boffins got to work into the night.

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鈥淚t fits into this idea that a group of boffins with a bit of wool and some yards of wire and some bits and bobs can win the war,鈥 he said.

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Fair play to the historians, and their big boffin heads, but we're not buying it.

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