(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.
Adjusting this television is a bit of a faff.
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(originally, northern England, typically, _, 'in a faff') A state of confused or frantic activity.
God it must be a faff having to get nigh-on naked every time your bladder runneth over, and imagine how much worse it must be if you only have a 20-second break to run off stage to the loo.
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(UK, obsolete) A puff of smoke; a gust of wind.
Breakfast in bed at the royal household is a massive faff. A page boy must carry the tray upstairs, but he's banned from actually serving it. So he leaves it on the floor by the bedroom door, whereupon a housemaid picks it up and knocks …
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