Word.ws English Dictionary

naffing off

naffing off is the present participle and gerund of naff off.

Meaning of naff off

Verb

naff off (third-person singular simple present naffs off, present participle naffing off, simple past and past participle naffed off)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) A mild version of fuck off
    • Princess Anne caused controversy when she told photographers to “naff off” in 1982.2013 April 1 [1982], Melissa Mohr, quoting Anne, Princess Royal, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 153

Questions about naffing off

What is naffing off the present participle and gerund of?
Naffing off is the present participle and gerund of naff off.

Words near naffing off in the dictionary

  1. naffed off
  2. naffer
  3. Nafferton
  4. naffest
  5. naffing
  6. naffing off
  7. naffly
  8. naffness
  9. naffs off
  10. nafimidone
  11. nafka

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: naffing off (page history and authors); naff 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: “naffing off.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/naffing_off. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.