"pfaff" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pfaffs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "faff"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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 [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 18, Chetan Mahajan, “The other pandemic: Title inflation”, in Livemint:",
          "text": "Chetan Mahajan is a writing coach, blogger and author. To convey coolness he calls himself the Chief Pfaffing Officer of the Himalayan Writing Retreat, which he co-founded.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of faff"
      ],
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        [
          "faff",
          "faff#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(British, slang) Alternative spelling of faff"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pfaff"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pfaffs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pfaffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pfaff (third-person singular simple present pfaffs, present participle pfaffing, simple past and past participle pfaffed)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "faff"
        }
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        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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 [...].",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "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\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 18, Chetan Mahajan, “The other pandemic: Title inflation”, in Livemint:",
          "text": "Chetan Mahajan is a writing coach, blogger and author. To convey coolness he calls himself the Chief Pfaffing Officer of the Himalayan Writing Retreat, which he co-founded.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative spelling of faff"
      ],
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          "faff",
          "faff#English"
        ]
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        "(British, slang) Alternative spelling of faff"
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "pfaff"
}