naff
美[n?f]
- adj. 不時髦的（等于nyaff）
詞態(tài)變化
比較級:?naffer;最高級:?naffest;
中文詞源
naff 沒有品位的，蹩腳的
詞源不確定，可能來自eff,該死的，來自fuck的委婉語。該詞進(jìn)一步用做eff的委婉語，以緩和語氣。
英文詞源
- naff
- naff: [20] There seem to be two separate words naff in British slang, but the origins of both are mysterious. The first, naff off, appeared in the 1950s. Functionally it is a euphemistic substitute for fuck off, and there could be some connection with eff, another euphemism for fuck (perhaps the n in an eff wandered out of place). Alternatively it could come from naf, an old backslang reversal of fan in the sense ‘female genitals’.
The second, an adjective meaning ‘unstylish, unfashionable, tasteless’, is first recorded in 1969. Its antecedents are even more obscure. Among possible relatives are northern English dialect niffy-naffy ‘stupid’ and naffy, naffin and naffhead ‘idiot’ and Scots nyaff ‘unpleasant person’. - naff (v.)
- British slang word with varied uses, not all certainly connected; see Partridge, who lists three noun uses: 1. "female pudenda" (c. 1845), which might be back-slang from fan, shortening of fanny (in the British sense); 2. "nothing," in prostitutes' slang from c. 1940; 3. 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.
雙語例句
- 1. She didn't hesitate to tell intrusive photographers to "naff off".
- 她毫不客氣地叫那些煩人的攝影者“滾開”。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The music's really naff.
- 這音樂真是太土了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. There was a naff band playing.
- 有一支蹩腳的樂隊在演奏。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 4. The book I read last week was nothing short of being naff.
- 我上星期看的那本書簡直是無聊透頂了.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. He told the salesman to naff off naff off.
- 他讓那上門兜攪生意的人離開.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)