Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
- (brittienglanti) pfaff
Synonyymit
- (amerikanenglanti)dick around
- mess around
- waste time
Ääntäminen
- British:
- IPA: /fæf/
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- (British, slang) An unnecessary or over-complicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
Verbit
- (British, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
Esimerkit
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | faffed |
| Imperfekti | faffed |
| Partisiipin preesens | faffing |
| Monikko | faffs |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | faffs |