boffiny

adj

Etymology

From boffin + -y.

Definitions

  1. Like a boffin

    Like a boffin; nerdy.

    • He is just annoyed because he was refused entry last year on grounds of not being boffiny enough. Which is frightening as James can recite all the books of the Bible, and the periodic table, off by heart, in song.
    • 2022, Simon Williams, Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label […] but at some key point in my so-called decade-long tenure there was a key piece of research that the boffiny NME publishing bigwiggoes indulged in.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for boffiny. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA