pfaff
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pfaff¹
interjection
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Indicating disapproval, scoffery, irritation, impatience or disbelief.
“Let him! Dost think these simple Englishmen can ever compete with us on the high seas? Pfaff! They are like the silly sheep they raise and are only fit for shearing. […]”
Similar: pshaw
verb pfaffs · pfaffing · pfaffed
- Alternative spelling of faff No, on a foreign journey, the real damage is done pfaffing about in airport lounges, counting down the torture to departure, sitting on the runway, enduring protracted periods of sub-pedestrian taxiing [...].
Pfaff²
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Pfaff, from Middle High German pfaffe (“cleric”).
proper noun Pfaffs
- A surname from German.
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title = {pfaff},
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