Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An excellent cooking-apple cultivated in England, especially in the county of Norfolk. It is often sold in a dried and flattened condition.
  • noun Hence A baked apple crushed into a flat round cake.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A sort of apple peculiar to Norfolk, Eng.
  • noun A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a deep-red cooking apple native to Britain.

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  • While a flag with a dragon or griffin
    Might make a lordly spine stiffen,
    To a stout Norfolk yeoman
    The ennobling omen
    Is a cake of his fine native biffin.

    February 24, 2014

  • Another QMS classic. Far out.

    May 4, 2024

  • Biff, Betty and Bill buffed a big bellyful of beefy baked biffins.

    May 4, 2024