Word.ws English Dictionary

faffed about

faffed about is the simple past and past participle of faff about.

Meaning of faff about

Verb

faff about (third-person singular simple present faffs about, present participle faffing about, simple past and past participle faffed about)

  1. (UK, intransitive) To waste time; to spend time idly.
    • She faffed about so much, she never got to eat her breakfast.

Questions about faffed about

What is faffed about the simple past and past participle of?
Faffed about is the simple past and past participle of faff about.

Words near faffed about in the dictionary

  1. faff
  2. faff about
  3. faff around
  4. faffage
  5. faffed
  6. faffed about
  7. faffed around
  8. faffer
  9. faffers
  10. faffery
  11. faffier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: faffed about (page history and authors); faff about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “faffed about.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/faffed_about. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.