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faffy

/ ˈfæfɪ /

adjective

  1. informal,  awkward and time-consuming to do or use

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Restrained and slim, the bacalao torta, for example, stews the dried fish with onion and tomato, plops a few green olives into the mix, and then slap-spreads the fish paste onto the bread with none of the faffy vegetable additions necessary.

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And some of the leaves you can eat and some you can’t, which I find faffy.

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And to be fair to Netflix, the system they’ve adopted of charging extra for a monthly UHD subscription is much less annoying, faffy and potentially expensive than any kind of pay per view model.

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