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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
faff /faf/ Brit. informal

▶verb spend time in ineffectual activity. ▶noun ineffectual activity.

– origin C18 (orig. dial. in the sense ‘blow in puffs’, describing the wind): imitative.

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