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  • (brittisk engelska) pfaff

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Uttal

  • British:

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (British, slang) An unnecessary or over-complicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.

Verb

  1. (British, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.

Exempel

  • Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
  • Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks on said portal.
  • She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast.
  • I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipfaffed
Imperfektfaffed
Presensparticipfaffing
Pluralfaffs
Tredje person singular indicativ presensfaffs

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