Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of
biffin .
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Examples
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It would have done your heart good to have seen her frost-bitten cheeks, as red as a beefen from her own orchard!
Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796
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He sent chills down NM's economic backbone when he mused out loud at a Boston conference about how money for Los Alamos and Sandia could be diverted to beefen up the arms control bureaucracy.
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