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guff off

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guff off (third-person singular simple present guffs off, present participle guffing off, simple past and past participle guffed off)

  1. (slang, Australia) To waste time; to shirk at work.
    • 1990, Michael Feeney Callan, Richard Harris: A Sporting Life, page 199:
      Tom Berenger just walked away when Richard did his thing, guffing off every which way .
    • 2007, Satya V. Sood, Victoria's Tin Dragon: A Railway that Built a Nation, page 56:
      [] those who were guffing off at work .
    • 2015, Amber Shields, Running into the Arms of Love:
      We could play basket ball, ping pong, board games. Or just guff off.