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faff

Meaning of faff

verb
  1. spend time in ineffectual activity.
    we can't faff around forever
noun
  1. a great deal of ineffectual activity.
    there was the usual faff of getting back to the plane

late 18th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘blow in puffs’, describing the wind): imitative. The current sense may have been influenced by dialect faffle ‘stammer, stutter’, later ‘flap in the wind’, which came to mean ‘fuss, dither’ at about the same time as faff (late 19th century).

Information about faff

  • The plural form of faff is: faffs.

Hyphenation of faff

faff

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • faff is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable