biff

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /bɪf/

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• Rhymes: -ɪf

biff (plural biffs)

1. (informal) A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
   • 1945, C. S. Lewis, The Great Divorce:

     "Hit him a biff," said the Big Man.

2. (informal, sports) A wipeout.

biff (third-person singular simple present biffs, present participle biffing, simple past and past participle biffed)

1. (informal, transitive) To punch or hit.
2. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
3. (informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.

biff

1. The sound of a person being punched or hit.
   • 1989 June 5, The Canberra Times, page 10, column 2:

     Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.

• IPA^(key): /bif/

biff m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of bif
   • 2011, “Michto”, performed by Seth Gueko:

     Faire du biff, c'est michto / Mais le biff attire les michtos

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Old French boef, via English beef.

biff m (definite singular biffen, indefinite plural biffer, definite plural biffene)

1. a steak (slice of beef)

• “biff” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old French boef, via English beef.

biff m (definite singular biffen, indefinite plural biffar, definite plural biffane)

1. a steak (slice of beef)

• “biff” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English beef. First attested in 1822.[1]

biff c

1. a beef steak [since 1822][1]
2. (colloquial) a large and very muscular person; a beefy guy, a beefcake

   Wow! Vilken biff!

   Wow! What a beefy guy!

False friend with beef, see nötkött.

• biffig (“beefy, brawny”)

• biff in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• biff in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)