faff
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /faf/, /fæf/
faff (plural faffs)
- (British, slang) An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
- Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
- 2011, Patrick Kingsley, "Life with the Queen Mum revealed ↗", The Guardian
- Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks on said portal.
- 2017: Glister by Andi Watson
- The fuss and faff meant Christmas had long since been drained of any joy and excitement.
- (typically in the phrase 'in a faff') a state of confused or frantic activity; a flap.
- She's in a total faff about tonight's dinner party.
- (overcomplicated task) See also Thesaurus:nuisance
- (frantic activity) flap
faff (faffs, present participle faffing; past and past participle faffed)
- (British, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
- She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast.
- I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.
- (waste time) arse around, dick around (American)
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