faffs
Meaning of faffs
- 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).
Information about faffs
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of faffs is: faff.
- Languages in which faffs is used:
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Hyphenation of faffs
faffs
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- faffs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Words that rhyme with faffs
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