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Meaning of boffiny | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Like a boffin; nerdy.

informal

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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