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Definition of Biffins
1. biffin [n] - See also: biffin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Biffins
Literary usage of Biffins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tour of Inquiry Through France and Italy: Illustrating Their Present by Edmund Spencer (1853)
"The biffins of Paris—Their social, religious, ... THE biffins comprehend, in
Parisian phraseology, the chiffonniers, and that numerous class of vagrants who ..."
2. The Hills O' Hampshire by Will Martin Cressy, James Clarence Harvey (1913)
"For once in his «life the Squire was speechless. He looked at the others helplessly.
Abe Slocum was the first to speak. "Pauline who?" " biffins," said Tom. ..."
3. Gal's Gossip by Arthur Morris Binstead (1899)
"Thought biffins would have been in town, but he hadn't started. As he saw me
drive up to the ... The biffins cad said the meter was "all wrong to blazes. ..."
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