Boffins
Scientists and boffins are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Scientists" instead a noun "Boffins".
Scientists
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- intellectuals and boffins
- intellectuals and scientists
- authorities and boffins
- authorities and scientists
- professors and boffins
- professors and scientists
- scholars and boffins
- scholars and scientists
- eggheads and boffins
- eggheads and scientists
- aces and boffins
- aces and scientists
- artists and boffins
- artists and scientists
Both words in one sentence
- A favoured word of lazy tabloid newspaper headlines to describe scientists, as in "CERN boffins find Higgs boson".
Source: Useful Notes / British English
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