"PFY" meaning in All languages combined

See PFY on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: PFYs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} PFY (plural PFYs)
  1. (slang, computing) Initialism of pimply-faced youth: the archetypical younger apprentice of the BOFH; a junior sysadmin. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: pimply-faced youth (extra: the archetypical younger apprentice of the BOFH; a junior sysadmin) Categories (topical): Computing

Inflected forms

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