Yanks officially recognise the word 'boffin'

Well according to Collins (on my cellphone) dictionary it means "it mean tricking people or being dishonest".

But I have been thinking about some of the words, I mean who on earth are so bored out of their mind or have so much free time to come up with these :confused:

Okay, one more thing, how on earth do you pronounce 'Twee', is it 'T-wee' or is it like 'T (silent) - wee' ....
 
Twee -one syllable, and it's pronouned as it looks (think Tween without the "n"). The word used to be in fairly common usage when I was growing up in London (30+ years ago)- although it's one of those words that seems to have fallen out of use due to its (upper) middle-class origins.
 
Archean said:
Well according to Collins (on my cellphone) dictionary it means "it mean tricking people or being dishonest".
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Thanks for that. Even still, i've never heard that used anywhere...not even on American TV or anything (I do pesume it's American slang).

I also presume it was Jamie Oliver's fault the word "Pukka" got in there....Maybe they thought of Jamie when they wrote the word "Prat"?
 
I once again, am cutting edge...:p


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I don't know about the seeming present participle. "boffin", but "boff" as as verb has always meant to have sex with. IE; "I'd sure like to boff her"! After that, Leeky can do what ever he wants to her PC.
 
captaincranky said:
I don't know about the seeming present participle. "boffin", but "boff" as as verb has always meant to have sex with. IE; "I'd sure like to boff her"! After that, Leeky can do what ever he wants to her PC.
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You're going to leave the man with sloppy PC seconds?!
 
According Merriam-Webster the word 'boffin' was first used in 1945. Whereas boff was first used in 1937.

So may be it has something to do with the WWII?

And I am not going to comment on captain's boff adventures :evil:
 
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