faff about
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.98 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast."
- "I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done."
- "It's a shame; not only are nuts quite ridiculously nutritious but, as anyone who's ever shelled out (sorry) for a tiny glass of pistachios in a pub will know, they're a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. But although I happen to have a soft spot for nut roast – an option often preferable to the meat that emerged from the school kitchen – it seems I'm in a cranky minority. A request for recipe recommendations was met with a polite silence on Twitter: vegetarianism, apparently, has moved on a bit. You don't see Yotam Ottolenghi faffing about with nut roasts, do you? But I'm determined to revive the fortunes of this much-maligned classic. After all, Christmas isn't Christmas without a luxury nut selection."
- "My train will be a pair of Class 158s that splits at Machynlleth, with the front unit going to Aberystwyth and the rear to Pwllheli. As the former is my first destination, I need to make sure I'm in the right unit to save faffing about at the split."
Usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb