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If something is naff, it looks cheap, old-fashioned, or in poor taste — not cool, and a bit . A naff souvenir, a naff jumper, a naff pop song: British people say this when something tries to look nice and misses. It is very British informal talk, from about the 1960s. Americans almost never use it; they would more often say tacky or cheesy. Naff is not a heavy swear word. It is a light, slightly snobbish poke at style. You can also tell someone to naff off, which means go away — a softer cousin of a ruder British phrase. Scholars are not sure where the adjective came from. It may have started in Polari, a private-ish slang used by some gay men and show people in Britain, and it may be a cleaned-up twist on ruder words. Treat that origin as “perhaps,” not as a settled story. There is also a South German family name Näff, which only looks similar; it is not this word.
俗氣、老土、沒品味(英式口語;美國幾乎不說)。
組成Perhaps from Polari in the 1960s; after that, nobody is sure. It may be a softened twist on ruder British talk (fanny, or eff off — see naff off). Treat this as perhaps. A South German surname Näff exists, but that is a family name, not this adjective.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Naffname
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An English surname.
naffadj/næf/
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Bad; tasteless, poorly thought out, not workable; tacky.
- That tie is a bit naff, don’t you think?
- She was an ordinary woman in her dress style; she didn't wear a leather bodice or naff over-knee plastic spiky-heeled boots.
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Heterosexual.
- The omie was a veritable donkey beneath the waistband, darlings. A donkey! No wonder your boss-palone is so smitten. I've seen my share, dollies, but this old omiepalone was shaken to the core. Such a terrible waste on a naff bloke.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。