spaff

English

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /spæf/
  • Rhymes: -æf

Verb

spaff (third-person singular simple present spaffs, present participle spaffing, simple past and past participle spaffed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate (on or in).
    • 2000, Hateplot, “dumb dumb”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet):
      Whoever thought of spaffing to extinguish campfires anyway (?), you idjit.
    • 2011, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “Goblin Tomorrow”, in alt.horror (Usenet):
      I think I just spaffed my pants.
    • 2014, Archie Aston & friends, it's not what I call art (page 66)
      I spaffed all over my face. Some went up my nose and in my eyes.
  2. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To waste (resources); splurge.
    • 2017, Claire Sandy, A Not Quite Perfect Family, Pan Macmillan, page 132:
      You behave as if it’s a sin to spend money, but if some la-la land TV company wants to spaff cash at me, what should I do? Duck?
    • 2019, Boris Johnson, The Boris Johnson Phone-In Live On LBC, m 2019-03-13:
      You know, £60m I saw was being spaffed up a wall on some investigation into historic child abuse and all this kind of thing. What on earth is that going to do to protect the public now?
    • 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 114:
      This grooming of the national mindset explains the retention of 92 "hereditary peers" in the House of Lords: individuals who are gifted a right to sit in the nation's upper chamber and facilitate laws for no other reason than that their ancestor was the illegitimate child of some prince, or willing to spaff a few quid on the title when David Lloyd Gorge was selling of gongs for bribes.

Noun

spaff (uncountable)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Ejaculate, semen.

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