Crossword clues for naff
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
British slang word with varied uses, not all certainly connected; see Partridge, who lists three noun uses:
"female pudenda" (c.1845), which might be back-slang from fan, shortening of fanny (in the British sense);
"nothing," in prostitutes' slang from c.1940;
a euphemism for fuck (v.) in oaths, imprecations, expletives (as in naff off), 1959, "making it slightly less obvious than eff" [Partridge]; and an adjective naff "vulgar, common, despicable," said to have been used in 1960s British gay slang for "unlovely" and thence adopted into the slangs of the theater and the armed forces.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context British slang English) In poor taste. 2 (context Polari English) bad; tasteless. 3 (context British slang English) Poorly thought out, not workable, or otherwise not very good. 4 (context Polari English) heterosexual.
Wikipedia
Naff or NAFF may refer to:
People:
- William E. Naff, an American scholar of Japanese language
- Lycia Naff, actress
- D-Naff (born 1974), a Namibian award-winning Gospel rapper, and a former street gangster
- Petty Naff, a notorious rowdy of the Know-Nothing Riot of 1856
- Kevin Naff, editor at the Washington Blade
Acronym:
- National Association for Freedom
- Nederlandse American Football Federatie (see American football in the Netherlands)
Other:
- An alternate transliteration of the Nat river in Arakan
- Naff (Polari), a British colloquial form with the meaning 'inferior, tacky', originally from the Polari subculture.
Usage examples of "naff".
Not only is he clueless enough to have a house repossessed but he happily puts in a naff door.
You could make a British film which every person in Britain went to see twice, plus half the population of the European Community, but unless at least five thousand Americans have also been persuaded to go the style fascists will judge it naff and parochial.
The troupers sprung their braces putting on a special effort, which was complemented by the display of naff riding put on by His Highness Erkev IV.
For a moment I felt the ghost of the old, naff Hayman Island stalking through its glamorously tasteful new home.
Clare told me he'd taken _rather_ a lot of convincing - once he'd determined to do the slightly naff champagne-pyramid stunt in the first place - not to try doing it with proper champagne flutes but to use the perry glasses like everybody else did.
It had one of those Motionmaster Cinemas, where the seats tilt and jerk, so that you actually feel as if you are being hurled through space or thrown off the edge of a mountain, and another cinema where you put on plastic glasses and watched a cherishably naff 3D comedy.
Not only is he clueless enough to have a house repossessed but he happily puts in a naff door.