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Biffin   Listen
noun
Biffin  n.  
1.
A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng. Note: (Sometimes called beaufin; but properly beefin (it is said), from its resemblance to raw beef.)
2.
A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.





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"Biffin" Quotes from Famous Books



... where only Mr Sparkler waited on his lady, and dutifully bided his time for shaking hands. When Mr Sparkler was admitted to this closing audience, Mr Merdle came creeping in with not much more appearance of arms in his sleeves than if he had been the twin brother of Miss Biffin, and insisted on escorting Mr Dorrit down-stairs. All Mr Dorrit's protestations being in vain, he enjoyed the honour of being accompanied to the hall-door by this distinguished man, who (as Mr Dorrit told him in shaking hands on the step) had really overwhelmed him with attentions ...
— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens


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