Boffin

Checking on the boffin was her first responsibility, a duty she was already late for. ❋ MR. SCOTT WESTERFELD (2009)

Seriously, the boffin was a particular type of scientist who could understand the viewpoint of the services, who worked with them, and who frequently shared their dangers. ❋ Unknown (1965)

Just in case you still think Jones is just some no-name boffin toiling pitifully in academia's climate change coal mines, one file in the exposed CRU records reveals that he has collected 13.7 million in grants since 1990. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before he found TV success in The Thick of It, Chris Addison was known as the boffin-comic: ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think the word "boffin" should get its own tag...it's magnificent. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

In connection with a major TV series they are producing about the OED, the BBC has set up a nifty Word Hunt site where readers can help identify the origins and first uses of 50 terms, ranging from "boffin" and "bog standard" to "ska" and "snazzy." ❋ KaneCitizen (2005)

Calling anyone within a 100 yard radius of a petri dish a "boffin". ❋ Unknown (2008)

"boffin" is a real account, but there is no indication as to why it is abused in this spam. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This interminable film attempts to "recreate" the mission by having likable Cambridge boffin Dr Hugh Hunt drop unexplosive decoys from a modern aircraft on a fake dam on a lake in Canada. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Graham Massey is here! she squealed, as excitedly as if 808 State's forgotten dance boffin was Elvis, and prompting an outbreak of head-scratching among the under-35s. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the plot soon proves as elusive as the boffin, rapidly abandoned in favour of increasingly bizarre left turns and hilarious digressions, including a hilarious routine about devising a new system of mathematics. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Using his own labels, why need be either a "boffin" or a "luvvy"? ❋ Carla Buzasi (2011)

Rather that just being a high-concept boffin, dazzling the world with limited-edition objects, he's a serious and expansive thinker with a vision toward moving his profession into the future—and democratizing it at the same time. ❋ Tom Vanderbilt (2011)

Things kick off tonight with a performance by Mark Aerial Waller, interpreting conceptual artist and science boffin John Latham's Government Of The First And Thirteenth Chair, an attempt to reconcile the infinite expanse of time with the fleeting moment. ❋ Unknown (2012)

A repairman couldn't help, so she took the computer in a cab to Stephen Fry, who – boffin that he is – managed to rescue it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Investment boffin Warren Buffett stepped in to invest in Bank of America last month in a move reminiscent of similar actions he took to invest in General Electric and Goldman Sachs at the height of the post-Lehman crisis in the fall of 2008. ❋ Dave Kansas (2011)

After some reflex hostility he was embraced, too, his new age boffin template energetically adopted. ❋ Unknown (2011)