biffin

[ bif-in ]

noun

1. a deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.

biffin

/ ˈbɪfɪn /

noun

1. a variety of red cooking apple

Word History and Origins

Origin of biffin¹

1785–95; variant of beefing (so called from color of beef ); -ing ³

Word History and Origins

Origin of biffin¹

C18: from beefin ox for slaughter, from beef ; referring to the apple's colour

Example Sentences

It stands against the wall, and does not appear to now mark the grave of Miss Biffin.”

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Mr. Henry Morley, in his “Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair,” writing about the fair of 1799, mentions Miss Biffin.

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But fourteen years later, having been married in the interval, she found it necessary to resume, as Mrs. Wright, late Miss Biffin, her business as a skilful miniature painter, in one or two of our chief provincial towns.”

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In our shandradan there is a modern version of Miss Biffin, who can't possibly walk, but not for the physical reasons which prevented the above-mentioned "abbreviated form" from pedestrianising; and there is also with us the usual genial, stout, elderly dissembler, who, affecting to be troubled with a touch of highly respectable gout, feigns the deepest regret at being unable to descend from the car and join the pedestrians in their delightful toil up the hard and stony hill.

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Miss Biffin, it is pleasant to think, thoroughly enjoyed her life, and, far from feeling that she was to be pitied because she had no hands, was quite convinced that she was much superior to anybody with two.

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