pfaff

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pfaff (third-person singular simple present pfaffs, present participle pfaffing, simple past and past participle pfaffed)

  1. (British, slang) Alternative spelling of faff
    • 2001, John McCabe, Snakeskin, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 61:
      No, on a foreign journey, the real damage is done pfaffing about in airport lounges, counting down the torture to departure, sitting on the runway, enduring protracted periods of sub-pedestrian taxiing [...].
    • 2004, Chris Ward, The controversial Sämisch King's Indian, page 81:
      By my own admission I pfaffed around a bit here but I'm going to claim that I was merely enjoying the moment!
    • 2005 September 25, “Atlantic slow row coming to end”, in BBC News:
      Mr Hicks wrote on his website: "At dusk the rudder cable broke
      At dusk the rudder cable broke. "Six hours pfaffing about in the dark and heaving sea saw a fairly unsatisfactory makeshift steering system into place"
    • 2020 May 18, Chetan Mahajan, “The other pandemic: Title inflation”, in Livemint:
      Chetan Mahajan is a writing coach, blogger and author. To convey coolness he calls himself the Chief Pfaffing Officer of the Himalayan Writing Retreat, which he co-founded.