biffy

[ bif-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Chiefly Upper Midwest and Canadian Slang.

, plural bif·fies.

Origin of biffy¹

Origin obscure

Get a move on that carcass of yours, Biffy, and let somebody else get up to that table.

And he had beaten Biffy to it, although Biffy had almost killed himself with trying.

He remembered to be sorry for Biffy till the whistle blew for the Annapolis game.

The next afternoon Neale was back on the Varsity and Biffy on the scrub.

There was a pang in his beatitude, a painful moment of generous distress when Biffy came up to congratulate him.

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