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- verb Present participle of
faff .
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Examples
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Lesson time that is wasted in faffing about with cables and recalcitrant software is lost learning time.
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Lesson time that is wasted in faffing about with cables and recalcitrant software is lost learning time.
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I conclude that faffing is dangerously addictive - even for someone as intellectually, morally and spiritually advanced as me.
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Unfortunately, getting this to work in Word without considerable faffing is almost impossible.
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I do like the word faffing, but a more literal and correct translation of the title of this survey from MyVoice would be filling free time with mobile content.
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Another example is "faffing," a word used by Q-Matic, a company that designs waiting systems, to describe the wasted time when one customer gathers his or her belongings after completing checkout.
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Compare with my table and you'll see that, by 'faffing', you'll double your gains and effectively double your interest rate!
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If anybody's got a persuasive argument in favour of the blasted thing I'll give it a hearing, but I've yet to hear one that doesn't sound like a justification for faffing about instead of working.
Archive 2009-06-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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And I'm perfectly capable of faffing about on my own.
Archive 2009-06-01 Roger Langridge 2009
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And I'm perfectly capable of faffing about on my own.
Middle-Class Twit Roger Langridge 2009
brusselsprouts commented on the word faffing
My father used to tell me to stop "faffing" about....
Made me giggle everytime. Much to his chagrin.
January 27, 2008
steffymarx commented on the word faffing
Faffing about = wasting time, messing about, taking a long time to do things instead of the direct/short way, English slang
June 8, 2009