Biff

[ninanicole]

What does the word 'Biff' mean?

[bimsey]

Bloody Ignorant Foriegn F*@ker.

[WendyW]

According to http://acadprojwww.wlu.edu/vol4/BlackmerH/public_h
tml/xliberty/oed/imitative.html Biff is a word that is derived from its sound. Bang is another.

[Quizmonster]

As an acronym, it may stand for "Battlefield Identification Friend or Foe", which I imagine to be some form of electronic military means of establishing who forces in a war-zone are. It may also be "Binary Interchange File Format", which is presumably some kind of computer jargon the meaning of which I personally couldn't even begin to guess at! As a 'word', it is an onomatopoeia - ie derived from its own sound - as Wendy says.

[Cactus]

I love that word - Onomatopoeia - i'm sure it's what the girl is chanting at the beginning of the Michael Jackson track "Liberian Girl". (THUMP) Ok, i can take a hint. Oh, that was another example of an onomatopoeic word...

[Kelvin]

Big Idle fat fellow

[bluedolphin]

When I was at school in the late sixties the headmaster used to dish out "biffs" to us across the palms of our hand with a leather strap if we hadn't done our latin homework properly 3 for lack of memory or 6 if he thought it was premediated.