[lit-ideas] Re: Reading List
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:51:57 -0800
On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:02 AM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
I've never heard/read "naff" before. I understand what it means from the context, but what is the colloquial culture in which it resides or whence it was born?
London.
"e's naffed off." He has absented himself.
but "it's naff," means, "it's does not come up to my, and possibly your own, exacting standards."
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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