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1980s in juvenile usage, a person who would rather eat bread than have sex. From a 1980's advertising campaign for bread in Australia: A man turns down an evening with a buxom wench to repair with a slice of multigrain. Voiceover: "Man does not live by bread alone but with Bornhoffen he comes close." This was then contracted into "B'hoffen" with aspirated first syllable and finally just "boffin" to describe nerds.
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