What is Faff?
1.
(faffing)
To muck about, wasting time doing something not necessary.
I've been faffing about all day with my car
2.
Verb.
1. to waste time doing nothing. 2. to waste time doing stupid things 3. to delay, dilly-dally, especially before leaving the house to be on time somewhere.
Example 1: "I didn't do anything on Sunday; I just faffed around the house."
Example 2:
Person 1: "I can't decided between these 2 jackets to wear to the movies. Which one? Where is my black hat? Oh wait, let me get my phone. Do you know where I put it? Oh and did you feed the cat dinner? Maybe I can just check email really quick right now; we have time."
Person 2: "Stop your faffing. We have to leave now or we won't make it."
Example 3:
"He faffed around on the internet for so long that he was almost an hour late meeting us at the bar."
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3.
The ability of making an easy, usually logistical, process complicated.
"We were supposed to be there an hour ago but with all the 'faffing' we were late."
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4.
Used to describe owners of the ST205 variant of the Toyota Celica GT-Four, due to their tendancy to 'faff' about over their cars
Nice faff you got there.
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Stop faffing about on that car/faff.
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5.
To showboat, musically. To solo excessively and busily. Almost silly...
I want him to take a solo, but he faffs too much
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6.
What women do. Trying to get something done whilst generally achieving nothing.
It took my wife 2 hours to get ready. 5 minutes to dress and 115 minutes to faff about.
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7.
To keep speaking pompously and with a lot of jargon , when in fact you don't have a clue of the topic at hand.Often excercised by Business people (mostly MBAs), public speakers, HR guys , politicians etc.
1> The CEO got up late to prepare for the presentation and ended up faffing like mad on the podium.
2> In an interview , when you've said enough "I don't know"s , its time for faffing.
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