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Biffin   Listen
noun
Biffin  n.  
1.
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng. Note: (Sometimes called beaufin; but properly beefin (it is said), from its resemblance to raw beef.)
2.
A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Biffin" Quotes from Famous Books



... long-arm'd Rob Roy.—His very charms Fashion'd him for renown!—In sad sincerity, The man that robs or writes must have long arms, If he's to hand his deeds down to posterity! Witness Miss Biffin's posthumous prosperity, Her poor brown crumpled mummy (nothing more) Bearing the name she bore, A thing Time's tooth is tempted to destroy! But Roys can never die—why else, in verity, Is Paris echoing ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood



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