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Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. UK, informal The characteristic behaviour of boffins; nerdy scientific thinking.
Etymologies
- boffin + -ry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Views: panoramicAuntie tweezers tales of boggling provenance from antique archives; adds F Bruce in provocative knitwearMaximal corporate hubris x incentivised boardroom intransigence = 140% idiotainmentLavish biography infuses wry top notes with curlicues of smoky boffinry.”
“For an even more diverse array of boffinry, try the Beano Annual of science blogging: The Open Laboratory, compiled by Bora "Coturnix" Zivkovic of A Blog Around The Clock.”
“There's not been enough boffinry 'round here recently, so I picked a paper again.”
“The boffins 'failure to squeeze water from moon stone was reported last week in hefty boffinry mag Science.”
“There's more on the Titanian polar lake evaporation spaceprobe boffinry”
“The assembled dirt experts have convinced the editors of hefty boffinry mag presented (subsciption required for full text).”
“In time, perhaps, the elusive Higgs boson might be found or not found, so conclusively settling the long-running grudge match between boffinry heavyweight Professor Higgs and his nemesis, famed wheelchair robovoice savant Stephen Hawking.”
“US Navy boffinry chiefs say they have successfully tested a cunning, heavily augmented crane which allows containers to be loaded on and off ships tossing on the waves out at sea, removing the need for a harbour when mounting an invasion or delivering humanitarian aid.”
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“Popović, his colleagues in academia, and tens of thousands of Foldit players have now provided that evidence in the form of a new study published in hefty boffinry mag”
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vanishedone The Register: 'The LHC is to be run by CERN, the Euro nuclear-physics outfit famous for letting its boffins meddle with things best left alone... The boffinry community, however, pooh-pooh Wagner's fears. They say that teeny black holes might be created but would vanish right away. They also say that the strangelet-custard conversion and monopole transmutation threats, if they were viable, should have occurred already due to cosmic-ray impacts in the upper atmosphere.' Mar 30, 2008