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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Unrelated to anything on this thread: is 'faff' the same as 'fraff'? there used to be a band about at the time of britpop called Fraff, that's why i'm asking. I'm not sure, I read a somewhere it's south london slang for 'messing around'.
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Faff does sort of mean 'messing around', but not in an irresponsible way, more a sort of doing something in an overfussy but ultimately not very productive way. I've never heard of the word 'Fraff' though. It sounds vaguely like a type of coffee.