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Definition of faff in English: faffverb faf [no object]British informal Spend time in ineffectual activity. 大量的无谓奔忙 we can't faff around forever 我们不能永远瞎忙活。 Example sentencesExamples - Now I'm faffing around for the afternoon until Amy gets back from Blenheim.
- I spend a huge amount of time faffing around because I'm a night person, and it has to stop…
- They are intended for self-building, which means you choose your components, then waste a weekend faffing.
- My family was faffing about, having tea in the Kynance Cove tea-shop.
- But then Phil and Rosie are obviously not as talented as me at faffing around.
- I was faffing around with laundry in the airing cupboard, and heard a small querulous voice say ‘Mummy?’
- I'd rather plough my energies into content and new projects than faffing with colour and layout.
- I've been faffing on with this for five years now.
- She stands on the platform faffing about for change.
- I've had no time for sitting around faffing, though.
- And I haven't got time or energy for faffing and fiddling for a few days, anyway
- I've lost all that time, faffing about, so what's the point?
- I was worried I was going to spend the day faffing and not get anything done, but I picked up the phone and with some trepidation phoned my first choice farm.
- Or, I choose to spend my time faffing around on the computer, or cooking.
- When doors opened at 10 am, Neil and designer Nick Harvey were still frantically faffing about trying to get their overhead sign to stay in place.
- I have been faffing around on such a superficial level for so long, maybe it's about time I did something about that.
- Make-up palettes are a girl-on-the-go's best friend - no more faffing with a full to the brim make-up bag.
- After faffing about at the plant fair and parting with some cash it was to the dance studios for my daughter's dance class.
- I have spent all evening faffing with templates to produce my very own photo blog (am hoping it will be an incentive to take the camera out more often).
- If these are the terms and conditions, then they may as well look elsewhere and stop faffing around pushing for a site that we all want to safeguard from development.
nounfaf British informal A great deal of ineffectual activity. 大量的无谓奔忙 there was the usual faff of getting back to the plane 接着发生的是：人们又像往常那样匆忙回到飞机上去。 Example sentencesExamples - To non-compost enthusiasts, all this must seem like a terrible faff.
- Bit of a faff, and not very flexible, but it kind of worked.
- For once there wasn't even the usual amount of unending faff and delay that plagues the start of club trips.
- It's not particularly complicated to enforce rigid hygiene technique; it's a big faff around, and it's a lot of work, but you've got to do it.
- It just has to be not too much of a faff to get from or to.
- The combination of tying new cows-tails, and having a squashed thumb led to another hour's faff.
- Puff pastry - frozen is less of a faff, but don't forget to defrost.
- It was a bit of a faff putting the tents up but we managed it.
- This was a bit of a faff, as he was in a fairly narrow passage, with a very uneven floor.
OriginLate 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). Originally a dialect word for ‘blow in puffs or small gusts’, faff was describing the wind, imitating the sound. The current sense may have been influenced by dialect faffle initially meaning ‘stammer, stutter’, later ‘flap in the wind’, which came to mean ‘fuss or dither’ at about the same time as faff in the late 19th century.
Rhymescaff, carafe, gaff, gaffe, naff, Najaf, piaffe, Taff |