faff

faff
verb
  1. [no obj.](Brit. informal)bustle ineffectually
    (英，非正式)劳而无成；瞎忙活
    we can't faff around forever.
    我们不能永远瞎忙活。
noun
  1. [in sing.]a great deal of ineffectual activity
    大量的无谓奔忙
    there was the usual faff of getting back to the plane.
    通常都得忙着赶回到飞机上去。
语源
  1. late 18th cent. (originally dialect in the sense 'blow in puffs or small gusts', 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 cent.)
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