Before he found TV success in The Thick of It, Chris Addison was known as the boffin-comic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I think the word "boffin" should get its own tag...it's magnificent.    From Wordnik.com.  ["What counts as a swot varies from school to school..."] Reference

Calling anyone within a 100 yard radius of a petri dish a "boffin".    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference

American space boffin in town, thisisbradford.co.uk.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: News: November 2006 Archives] Reference

Gregory was a boffin who wanted to change the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

The lady boffin appeared, right behind her thylacine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

The lady boffin stood up again and turned to stare out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

“Why does it keep laughing?” asked the lady boffin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

The odd thing was, the lady boffin had hardly seemed upset.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

He is a boffin who dreams of being a different kind of hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrian Newey's vision brings F1 glory to Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel] Reference

“How interesting,” the lady boffin said as he walked away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

My idea to stick a boffin on the telly matched your idea I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [A very wet drought] Reference

‘Alien spies live among us’ says Bulgarian gov space boffin ?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Ellis » Links for 2009-11-29] Reference

Roddy the one-time Scottish Office boffin, now an investment analyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Set in Darkness]

“Hurt them, Mr. Sharp?” the lady boffin asked, and Dr. Busk laughed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

“This battle is quite pointless, I assure you,” the lady boffin said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

Come back before dawn, though, or the lady boffin will have both our heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

They had some boffin there who did it to everyone on that issue, apparently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference

After a moment of uncomfortable silence, the lady boffin cleared her throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

Who's afraid of the third culture? asks Gloria Origgi in boffin clubhouse Edge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: 2006-05-05 Spike activity] Reference

Even when dispensing compliments, the lady boffin always managed a mocking tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

“Really, Mr. Sharp,” the lady boffin said, the steel returning to her voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

The lady boffin simply stared, dumbstruck for the first time Deryn had ever seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

I episode, with a white-coated boffin in the background readying strange machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  [28 Days of 2000 AD #5: B.L.A.I.R. 1] Reference

Do you use much reference for these pages, are you a bit of an architectural boffin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&A: Simon Gane] Reference

“A pleasure to see you too, Mr. Sharp,” the lady boffin said, turning from the view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

Sir Robert Watson-Watt has stated that the bill of the boffin had two separate functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Research in the United Kingdom] Reference

The lady boffin waved her hand, as if she saw towers wrapped in lightning topple every day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

A brilliant boffin-well, everyone attached to Tea Clipper was brilliant in one way or another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]

Deryn turned and bowed a squick to the lady boffin, feeling awkward in her full-dress uniform.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behemoth] Reference

Its starting point, explains an excitable Honda boffin, was nothing less than the reinvention of the wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Honda promises to change the world with U3-X, the first ���mechtronic' unicycle by The Times] Reference

For a goofy old boffin, whose stuffiness was grist for the mockery of the younger copyists, he seemed remarkably flexible mentally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Water Sleeps]