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Word: Faff
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
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)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
faf
Dialects: British English
Definition:
spend time in ineffectual activity
Short Definition:spend time in ineffectual activity
Examples:- we can't faff around forever
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