Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To strike or punch.
- n. A blow or punch.
- n. Upper Midwest Variant of biffy.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From English biff, interjection, probably of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The next instant, before she could prance away again, the _other_ end of that slim, black tip swung out of the branch and whipped itself round and round her body, and a black head, with sharp fangs in it, hit her _biff, biff, biff_! on the nose.”
“Now, like biff is proclaiming, I dont have any homophobic tendencies.”
“I guess we have a new cvillenesian, folks! biff is creating what seems to be "forums within forums".”
“All of these properties are also stored in the folder cache (nsIMsgFolderCache) to avoid opening up all of the databases just to figure out how many unread messages are in each folder. nsIMsgAccountManager and nsIMsgBiffManager are two managers that handle account creation and the periodic mail download (generally called biff), respectively.”
“He calls himself "biff" – what do you expect from him, an original thought or something?”
“I think it was "biff" who made that conclusion based on being online about the same time of day.”
“Central Powers no end of a "biff" in this particular quarter.”
“An example: there's bus ads for shows like Nurse Jackie with the slogan "Our heroes have more fun" complete with "biff" "bam" and "pow" sound effects on the images.”
“This is a rare intrusion of 'biff' in a contest that has seen Brash say he did not go hard at Clark in a televised debate because she was a woman.”
“About: KBiff is a KDE "biff" or new mail notification utility.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘biff’.
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FUN - Jeeves and Wooster - Wooster
"Woosterisms" as heard from the character " Wooster" in P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves and Wooster" stories.
be potty about, be tutted at, biff, big fella, bit of a cropper, blighter, blot, By gee!, By gosh!, By gum!, chilled steel, chokey and 115 more...
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Of Imitative Origin
Words formed in imitation of the sound of the things they signify.
bawl, biff, blizzard, blob, blooper, bob, boff, bomb, bonkers, boo, borborygmus, brouhaha and 148 more...
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It's short for "Elizabeth"
beth, bess, bessy, betty, bette, liz, liza, eliza, ellie, nell, nelly, betsy and 29 more...
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American Onomatopoeia
A neat list of sound effects that come in handy when you try to describe how Adam West is beating up Superman.
meow, roar, oink, tik tok, zap, boom, pow, bam, whaam, biff, crunch, whack and 5 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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ulyssean
... as in "by James Joyce"
stately, plump, aloft, gurgling, untonsured, chrysostomos, jowl, parapet, jesuit, indigestion, scutter, noserag and 688 more...
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Words on tumblr
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Ffine ffettle
Words ending in double F
bailiff, mastiff, pontiff, plaintiff, distaff, dandruff, biff, blastoff, brushoff, bluff, buff, caitiff and 51 more...
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Kapow! (I'm Batman)
Sound effects from the show. Swiped from here: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas_cantidad.htm
aieee, aiieee, awk, awkkkkkk, bam, bang, bang-eth, bap, biff, bloop, blurp, boff and 69 more...
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Pop Whiz
Onomatopoetic.
pop, whiz, flush, bang, whap, splat, fizz, spritz, biff, clang, zoom, hiss and 17 more...
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my words
ubiquitous, devout, dyslexia, suave, debonair, finagle, plush, accede, prodigy, persona, lethargic, caricature and 84 more...
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Biff!
Onomatopoeic words (particularly for fights)
bang, clang, clap, whir, whiz, whoosh, zap, zing, zoom, rip, scrunch, biff and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for biff.
madmouth an American jock and (usually, by extension) an ethically as well as intellectually lacking sort of guy (with monosyllabic friends, e.g. Bud, Bruce, Jake) Aug 3, 2009
yarb Gibbo picks up a Magnesian Limestone
chunk and assails the ledges at random,
biffing an incubating kittiwake
full in the sternum - an audible slap.
- Peter Reading, At Marsden Bay, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 29, 2008
brtom "He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry." Joyce, Ulysses, 15 Jan 1, 2008