Boffin

Of course jos real name is not boffin, but Henry Johnson; we only call him Boffin as a joke, partly because he is a dustman, and partly because he will dress so showily, and get as much gold on him as a baron of the Middle Ages.

News from Nowhere 1892

Of course his real name is not boffin, but Henry Johnson; we only call him Boffin as a joke, partly because he is a dustman, and partly because he will dress so showily, and get as much gold on him as a baron of the Middle Ages.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

Boffin_, wife of Mr.N. Boffin, and daughter of a cat's-meatman.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Mr. Wegg did not like the name Boffin, but its oldest form is bon-fin, good and fine.

The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

(The good lady bitterly emphasized the first letter of the word Boffin, as if it represented her chief objection to the owners of that name, and as if she could have born

Our Mutual Friend 2004

(The good lady bitterly emphasized the first letter of the word Boffin, as if it represented her chief objection to the owners of that name, and as if she could have born

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens 1841

I shall lie for a minute or so with my nose peeping over the coverlet, agreeably and gently coming awake, and with some vague nightmare of sitting at a common table with an unavoidable dustman in green and gold called Boffin,

A Modern Utopia 1906

[105] "Boffin" and "Fascination Fledgeby," were nicknames given to his children by Mr. Robert Lytton at this time.

The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 Charles Dickens 1841

And with a minute of time remaining, after a goalmouth scramble the ball fall to Hylton 18 yards out and he drove a low, angled shot past Ruud Boffin.

West Ham United 1-2 Aldershot | Carling Cup match report 2011

Aldershot arrived in east London without a point or a goal from their previous three matches, so for West Ham fans there was almost an inevitability about the equaliser in the 78th minute, when stand-in Hammers keeper Ruud Boffin blocked Alex Rodman's shot and the rebound landed kindly for Luke Guttridge to tuck away.

West Ham United 1-2 Aldershot | Carling Cup match report 2011