Word.ws English Dictionary

guff off

guff off verb: to waste time; to shirk at work.

Verb

guff off (third-person singular simple present guffs off, present participle guffing off, simple past and past participle guffed off)

  1. (Australia, slang) To waste time; to shirk at work.
    • Tom Berenger just walked away when Richard did his thing, guffing off every which way .1990, Michael Feeney Callan, Richard Harris: A Sporting Life, page 199
    • […] those who were guffing off at work .2007, Satya V. Sood, Victoria's Tin Dragon: A Railway that Built a Nation, page 56

Forms of guff off

third-person singular presentguffs off
present participleguffing off
past participleguffed off
pastguffed off

Questions about guff off

What does guff off mean?
Guff off means to waste time; to shirk at work.
What part of speech is guff off?
Guff off is a verb.
What is the past tense of guff off?
The past tense of guff off is guffed off.

Words near guff off in the dictionary

  1. guevi
  2. guevis
  3. Gueye
  4. Gueyes
  5. guff
  6. guff off
  7. guffaw
  8. guffawed
  9. guffawing
  10. guffawingly
  11. guffawings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: guff off (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: “guff off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/guff_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.