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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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(faffing)
To muck about, wasting time doing something not necessary.
I've been faffing about all day with my car
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Fucking Around for Fucking Forever
Stop faffing and get down here, we haven't got all day.
He spends most of his day faffing, eating and sleeping. Nothing particularly useful.
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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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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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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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