"pfaff" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1937, Elinor Whitney Field, “The Coffer Keys” (chapter 5), in Tod of the Fens, The Macmillan Company, page 63:",
          "text": "“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. […]”",
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      "form": "pfaffs",
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    {
      "form": "pfaffing",
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      "form": "pfaffed",
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      "form": "pfaffed",
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          "ref": "2001, John McCabe, Snakeskin, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 61:",
          "text": "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 [...].",
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          "ref": "2004, Chris Ward, The controversial Sämisch King's Indian, page 81:",
          "text": "By my own admission I pfaffed around a bit here but I'm going to claim that I was merely enjoying the moment!",
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          "ref": "2005 September 25, “Atlantic slow row coming to end”, in BBC News:",
          "text": "Mr Hicks wrote on his website: \"At dusk the rudder cable broke\nAt dusk the rudder cable broke. \"Six hours pfaffing about in the dark and heaving sea saw a fairly unsatisfactory makeshift steering system into place\"",
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          "ref": "2020 May 18, Chetan Mahajan, “The other pandemic: Title inflation”, in Livemint:",
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