biffin
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun An excellent cooking-apple cultivated in England, especially in the county of Norfolk. It is often sold in a dried and flattened condition.
- noun Hence A baked apple crushed into a flat round cake.
Examples
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All the fruit was not edible, for we saw an apple that tasted very much of the wood, being full of pips resembling doll's tea-things; whilst, upon suction, the pears emitted musical sounds; and a biffin, like a pincushion, had the flavour of bran -- probably it was bran-new.
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I think a Norfolk biffin would rouse her, Cobbs. She is very fond of them.
Note
As per the OED, 'biffin' is a dialect pronunciation of 'beefing,' in reference to 'the deep red colour of the apple.'
