Faffing, well I had never heard of the word. After it was said, and much later, I resorted to the internet to look it up. Having learned this old person slang, I decided to write a little ditty “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”
I’ve been faffing on the internet
All the live-long day.
I’ve been faffing on the internet
Just to pass the time away.
Don’t you hear the computer beeping,
Rise up so early in the morn;
Don’t you hear the bosses shouting,
“Dinah, blow your horn!”
The Wiktionary definition:
English
[edit]Etymology
Dialect, ‘blow in gusts’.
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
faff (third-person singular simple present faffs, present participle faffing, simple past and past participle faffed)
- (UK, slang) To waste time on an unproductive activity.
- I decided to stop faffing about and get some work done.
[edit]Usage notes
Particularly used as faff about or faff around.
[edit]Synonyms
- dick around (American)