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boffin
[bof-in]
noun
a scientist or technical expert.
boffin
/ ˈɒɪ /
noun
informala scientist, esp one carrying out military research
a person who has extensive skill or knowledge in a particular field
a Treasury boffin
informalsomeone who is considered to be very clever, often to the exclusion of all non-academic interests
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of boffin1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of boffin1
Example Sentences
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.
In that reused Red Box will be a boffin’s Budget.
The boffins got to work into the night.
“It 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,” he said.
Fair play to the historians, and their big boffin heads, but we're not buying it.
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