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▪ I. boff, bofet, boffet
obs. ff. buff, buffet.
▪ II. boff, n.1 and a. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |bɒf|, U.S. |bɑf|
[Probably imitative: compare earlier baff n., biff n. With use as adjective, compare earlier boffo adj.1 Compare also boffo n.1 and adj.2
It is uncertain whether there is any connection with the following (recorded only from Yorkshire):
1898Eng. Dial. Dict. I. 324/2 Boff.., an alarm, a sudden shock. In senses A. 1 and A. 2, originally associated with the U.S. entertainment-industry magazine Variety.]
A. n.
1. A blow, a punch. Also fig.
1921‘Con.’ in Variety 8 Apr. 7/5 Tomato..socked Pepper on the button with a boff that you could hear all over the buildin. 1944D. Runyon in Collier's 15 Jan. 53/2, I quietly gave Girondel a boff over his pimple with a blackjack. 1991HP Professional June 12/3 So what effect have all these biffs, boffs and product moves had on Sun? 2001Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (Nexis) 18 Feb. (Metro section) 9 Spectators report that Jones in return received a boff on the chin, so maybe Plotkin got inside and nailed him with an uppercut.
2. In the entertainment industry: a great success, a hit. Cf. boffo n.2 Now rare.
1943Variety 19 May 8/1 Only in one musical number is she [sc. Betty Grable] a boff. 1946Time 21 Jan. 70 Such trade phrases as ‘boff’ (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, ‘preem’, as a verb meaning to stage a première. 1984N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Aug. a10/1 (heading) Nancy Reagan film a boff. The hall waxed romantic when the film tribute to Nancy Reagan was shown.
3. Sexual intercourse; an instance of this. Hence: a sexual partner, esp. a woman.
1956S. Longstreet Real Jazz viii. 62 So no more legal boff and soon, no more legal booze. 1961J. Heller Catch 22 xxxviii. 394, I thought I might as well give the stupid broad another boff just for old time's sake. 1973B. Hirschfeld Generation of Victors xxx. 237 Bet she's a great boff. 1977P. Hamill Flesh & Blood xxiv. 203 Hell, I'd like to give you a boff, boy. 1994Ottawa Citizen 2 Nov. b7/1 The series has become a rutting, panting soap opera. It might be subtitled A Boff in the Buff in Banff.
B. adj. In the entertainment industry: designating or relating to a commercial hit; hugely successful, spectacular, excellent. Cf. boffo adj.1
1945Variety 18 July 34/1 Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn cleffed five new numbers, three of which are given the Frank Sinatra treatment for boff results. 1959Guardian 14 Oct. 7/3 The ‘boff’ technique beloved of Broadway in the pre-Oklahoma days, so that principals and chorus are lined up facing the audience, arms extended, grins frozen, as the music hits a crescendo on the last line. 1981Forbes (Nexis) 12 Oct. 20 They'll bite all the hands that feed them if it pays at the box office. If it's boff, barf matters not.
▪ III. boff, n.2 slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |bɒf|, U.S. |bɑf|
[Shortened ‹boffo n.1, but perhaps also influenced by boff n.1]
Originally and chiefly in the entertainment industry: a hearty or unrestrained laugh; a joke, esp. one which elicits uproarious or uncontainable laughter. Cf. boffo n.1
1945in H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang (1960) 49/2 Always trying for a boff..a laugh. 1946Hollywood Q. July 364/2 This has resulted in a wave of reaction throughout the industry against the type of cartoons known as ‘Rembrandts’; that is, any type of cartoon except those based on the ‘boff’ or belly laugh. 1955S. J. Perelman Let. 15 Dec. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 182 The obligation to prepare at least sixty pages of boffs had become a nightmare. 1965People (Austral.) 21 Jan. 21/1 A classic example of what is known in the laugh trade as ‘the boff’ (the great gust of laughter following a split second after the point of the gag is seen). 1987Washington Post (Nexis) 22 May e4 But I still got a big boff out of the bumper sticker mine eyes saw the glory of on River Road. 1999Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times (Nexis) 9 Sept. b6, I don't work for giggles, I work for boffs, real belly laughs. My real criteria is that everybody must understand the joke at the same time.
▪ IV. boff, n.3 slang (orig. and chiefly Brit.).
Brit. |bɒf|, U.S. |bɑf|
[Shortened ‹boffin n.]
= boffin n.
1984P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 109/1 Boff, short for boffin. 1989Independent 2 Nov. 36/1 The new album was recorded in LA with a predictable assortment of session boffs. 1994Observer 13 Mar. (Life Suppl.) 8/2 All the grammar school boffs, the scholars and the pointy-heads. 1997DJ 30 Aug. 19 The latter [game program] is a device of more serious capabilities which the pair will be using on tour and studio boffs will eagerly clutch to their bosom. 2000Business Times (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 16 July 19 The technical boffs are poring over their charts to see if there is another 20 points of profit still to come.
▪ V. boff, v. slang.
Brit. |bɒf|, U.S. |bɑf|
[‹ boff n.1 Compare earlier baff v.2, biff v., buff v.1 In sense 2 compare bonk v. 2.]
1. trans. orig. and chiefly U.S. To hit, strike; esp. to beat (a person) on the head.
1930D. Runyon Hottest Guy in World in Liberty 8 Nov. 24/1 He never misses a chance to push Big Jule around, and sometimes boffs Big Jule over the bean with his blackjack. 1954J. Thompson Hell of Woman xi. 80, I wanted to boff hell out of the old bitch, and I just couldn't move. 1967J. Speicher Looking for Baby Paradise iii. 41 One..might..boff you with [a] picket sign. 1981Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 21 May b13 Two grayish-green turtles are performing the rite of spring. He nuzzles her turtle neck, she boffs him away with a flipper. 1995Daily Mail 28 Feb. 22/4 During the struggle Knights was ‘boffed’ on the head.
2. trans. and intr. orig. U.S. To have sexual intercourse (with).
Although used with the same meaning, in Britain this sense of boff seems to carry a different register. While in America the usage is regarded as relatively coarse, in Britain it is often used somewhat euphemistically, like the similar bonk v.
1937J. Weidman I can get It for You Wholesale i. 6 You wouldn't even let me take time out to get boffed. 1968G. Vidal Myra Breckinridge xxvii. 122 Why, just the thought of boffing some hairy boy makes me sick all over. 1982Observer 31 Jan. 48/7 While Dora and Toby are boffing beneath the bell, there is a rustle in the shrubbery. 1993Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 128/4 He never met a nurse under 40 he didn't boff. 2000Nation 10 July 44/3 Her boyfriend..enjoys lording it over the cop as much as he likes boffing Domino.
Derivatives. boffing n. (a) masturbation (rare); (b) (an act of) sexual intercourse.
1949E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 995/2 *Boffing, masturbation. 1977Washington Post (Nexis) 4 Sept. g1 Much talk of ‘boffing’. 1990J. Updike Rabbit at Rest ii. 257 Dad, when are you going to get your mind off boffing? 1997D. Hansen Sole Survivor xiv. 164 Take her out and give her a darn good boffing. That'll do the trick. |