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- boffin accessdate "2012-12-19".
- boffin date "June 2009".
- boffin first "Evan".
- boffin isCitedBy Boffin.
- boffin last "Morris".
- boffin quote "The most intriguing lead is literary. The late British etymologist Eric Partridge pointed out that Charles Dickens, in his novel Our Mutual Friend , describes his character Mr. Boffin as "a very odd-looking old fellow indeed," and William Morris, in his News from Nowhere , has his own Mr. Boffin, described as a "dustman" interested in mathematics.".
- boffin title "Boffin – Maybe it's a form of "baffling"".
- boffin url boffin.
- boffin work "word-detective.com".