| 释义 |
▪ I. biff, v. slang.|bɪf|
[Imitative.]
1. trans. To hit, strike. Also to biff (a person) one.
1888Judy 18 Jan. 27 He playfully biffed him with a brick. 1894Kipling Day's Work (1898) 71 Ef we all biffed you now, these same men..'u'd call us off. 1903S. Clapin Dict. Amer. 50 Bif, biff, bift, current in several parts of the States in sense of to strike, and especially to give a quick blow. ‘He biffed him on the ear.’ 1908G. H. Lorimer J. Spurlock i. 19 If she had biffed me one it would have been all right. 1950A. Baron There's no Home 181 Where'd you get that bruise on your forehead? Girl friend been biffing you with the old rolling pin?
b. fig. To deal a blow to, to refute, to ‘stump’ (see also quot. 1895).
1895W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 60 Biff, to refuse; to repulse; to slight. 1914T. E. Lawrence Let. June (1938) 174 To biff that, Woolley & I walked over next day to Mesopotamia. 1915C. Mackenzie Guy & Pauline v. 263 ‘Oh, it's in old French, is it?’ said Brydone in a disappointed voice. ‘That would biff me.’ A silence fell upon the room, a silence that seemed to symbolize the ‘biffing’ of the doctor's son by old French.
c. To throw. Also intr. Austral. and N.Z.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 9 Biff, to throw. 1964N.Z. Listener 1 May 4/2 ‘All I can do is biff.’ ‘Then just biff—as hard as you can. You're a natural [at putting the shot].’
2. intr. To go, proceed. Esp. with off, to leave, depart.
1923Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves i. 9 Bingo biffs about London on a pretty comfortable allowance. Ibid. xv. 189, I can't go chucking all my engagements..in order to biff down to Twing. 1929― Mr. Mulliner Speaking viii. 250 Biffed off a trifle abruptly.
3. The verb used adverbially with go, in the sense of ‘with a violent blow’. Cf. bif, biff int.
1904Daily Chron. 15 Dec. 4/7 There might go biff through the glass the occasional plank.
Hence ˈbiffing vbl. n., the action of the verb biff.
[1894Kipling in Century Mag. Dec. XLIX. 295/2 S'pose we want the Back Pasture turned into a biffin'-ground on our only day er rest?] 1915[see sense 1 b above]. 1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvii. 374 The miscreant receives..a..biffing.
▪ II. biff, n. slang.
Also bif.
[f. the vb.]
A blow, whack. Also fig. Cf. baff n.
1889Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang, Biff (Americanism), to give [one] a ‘biff in the jaw’. 1890Dialect Notes I. 72 Bif,..oftenest used in such phrases as ‘to give one a biff in the ear’. 1904W. H. Smith Promoters x. 165 What an idiot a man can be when he gets a biff that takes his wind. 1926Blackw. Mag. Feb. 224/1 Contusions on top of head..biff on the — bruise on inside of knee. 1935L. A. G. Strong Tuesday Afternoon 45 A biff that made him bite his tongue.
▪ III. biff, int.
see bif int. |