taff

Shortened from Taffy, from Dafydd.

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taff (plural taffs)

1. (slang) A Welshman.

• FATF, FTFA

• IPA^(key): /taf/
• Rhymes: -af

taff m (plural taffs)

1. (slang) alternative form of taf

   Je cherche un nouveau taff

   I’m looking for a new job.

   Si vous en avez marre du taff ou de l'école

   If you're fed up with work or school.

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• tough

Borrowed from English tough. Perhaps influenced by older toff (“good, cool, well-dressed”), from Yiddish טובֿ (tof), from Hebrew טוֹב (tov, “good”). Compare Dutch tof and English toff. Doublet of zäh.

• IPA^(key): /taf/

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taff (strong nominative masculine singular taffer, comparative taffer, superlative am taffsten)

1. (colloquial) tough, robust, hard-bitten, assertive, socially apt and self-assured, quick-witted

   Enrique Iglesias über seine Lebensgefährtin: “Ich wünschte, ich wäre nur halb so taff und kämpferisch.”

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