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faffing about

Wasting time, doing nothing in particular. Also, can mean finding idle tasks to do while wasting time.

Comparable to dilly-dallying.
I'm just faffing about until lunch time.

_or_

- What are you doing there, working?
- Nah, I'm just faffing about.
by eydryan September 20, 2011
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Faffery

'She was mastering the art of faffery in that lesson.'
by Meadhbh January 4, 2008
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faff

Verb.
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."
by Amy Lapierre October 12, 2005
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FROFFIN

a term to describe the up most excitement, literally froffin at the mouth to get amongst the actions your abut to par-take
" man every girl at the festival was FROFFIN over rass's and marcus's shreddedness" i gotta start training like them legends !!!
by rasstronics March 7, 2013
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faffin

Karl Pilkington explained to Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant that travel to foreign lands was a lot o faffin, because you have to get injections just to keep yourself alive during the visit.
by jigsawtooth February 21, 2010
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Freffy

Freffy is the term used to name fandom shipping of Freddie McClair and Effy Stonem, characters from the third series of the popular British TV show from channel E4, Skins.

Freddie McClair is played by Luke Pasqualino and Effy Stonem is played by Kaya Scodelario.
"oh my god I'm a fan of Freffy" meaning a fan of Freddie McClair and Effy Stonem
'' Freffy rocks! ''
by apsodkpasodk June 4, 2009
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Froffies

Beer, or any other alcoholic beverage
Tom: Derek you hitting the froffies this weekend?
Derek: Sure am buddy.
by Reu73 November 22, 2011
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