baffie

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbæfi/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æfi

Noun

baffie (plural baffies)

  1. (golf) Alternative form of baffy
  2. (Scotland) A slipper, or a worn, comfortable shoe.
    • 2000, Kate Atkinson, Emotionally Weird, Macmillan, published 2001, →ISBN, page 40:
      […] ; the inhabitants' benign indifference to idiosyncratic behavior (the way, for example, that you could walk down the street in nothing but a pair of baffies with a budgerigar on your head and no-one would think twice of it).
    • 2001, Janet Paisley, Not for Glory‎, Canongate, →ISBN, page 241:
      […] put him oot the door in his semmit an his baffies.
    • 2003, Katie MacAlister, Men in Kilts, Penguin Group, →ISBN, page 87:
      “You can’t be walking about in the muck with naught but your skirts and baffies. […] ” ¶ By process of elimination I narrowed the word baffies to mean some sort of footwear.

References
  • “baffies” in Betty Kirkpatrick, The Concise Dictionary of Scottish Words and Phrases, Crombie Jardine Publishing (2006), →ISBN.
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