Max Wheeler - 12/Sep/06 06:27 AM "Boffo" is new to me. Can you give hints about context, e.g. domain or region?

Jaume Ortolà i Font - 12/Sep/06 06:45 AM "All the same, Reinfeldt's novelty alone won't elect him. There are real problems in beating the Social Democrats. Sweden's second-quarter growth rate was 5.6 percent, boffo by European standards. Unemployment, officially at 6 percent, is far better than in Germany or France." Swedish conservative puts 'work' to work By John Vinocur International Herald Tribune Published: September 11, 2006

Gill Martin - 12/Sep/06 09:48 AM Is this AmE then - Lou? It's new to me as well. It sounds Australian.

Jonathan Kaye - 12/Sep/06 10:38 AM I vaguely remember "boffo" from the 50's and 60's associate with the magazine "Variety", the bible of the American entertainment business. It was a term usually found in headlines but never never never used by normal human beings. I googled Variety AND boffo and ... for once I was right. If used in DACCO it should come with a very strong warning not to use it. For recognition purposes only http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage