Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An excellent cooking-apple cultivated in England, especially in the county of Norfolk. It is often sold in a dried and flattened condition.
- noun Hence A baked apple crushed into a flat round cake.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
- noun A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a deep-red cooking
apple native toBritain .
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Examples
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All the fruit was not edible, for we saw an apple that tasted very much of the wood, being full of pips resembling doll's tea-things; whilst, upon suction, the pears emitted musical sounds; and a biffin, like a pincushion, had the flavour of bran -- probably it was bran-new.
Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please?”
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please?”
The Holly-Tree 2007
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please? "
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I nearly done in me first ol 'man by biffin' the chopper at 'is nob, and Lawd, the lies I bin an' tol 'me second only yesterday. "
Living Alone Stella Benson 1912
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Cobbs, do you think you could bring a biffin, please? "
The Holly-Tree Charles Dickens 1841
qms commented on the word biffin
While a flag with a dragon or griffin
Might make a lordly spine stiffen,
To a stout Norfolk yeoman
The ennobling omen
Is a cake of his fine native biffin.
February 24, 2014