faffing

Meaning of faffing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. spend time in ineffectual activity.
    we can't faff around forever

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).

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  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of faffing

faffing

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • faffing is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with faffing

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