Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spaff
Participle: spaffed
Gerund: spaffing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spaff |
| you | spaff |
| he;she;it | spaffs |
| we | spaff |
| you | spaff |
| they | spaff |
Perfect
| I | have spaffed |
| you | have spaffed |
| he;she;it | has spaffed |
| we | have spaffed |
| you | have spaffed |
| they | have spaffed |
Past
| I | spaffed |
| you | spaffed |
| he;she;it | spaffed |
| we | spaffed |
| you | spaffed |
| they | spaffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spaffed |
| you | had spaffed |
| he;she;it | had spaffed |
| we | had spaffed |
| you | had spaffed |
| they | had spaffed |
Future
| I | will spaff |
| you | will spaff |
| he;she;it | will spaff |
| we | will spaff |
| you | will spaff |
| they | will spaff |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spaffed |
| you | will have spaffed |
| he;she;it | will have spaffed |
| we | will have spaffed |
| you | will have spaffed |
| they | will have spaffed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spaff |
| you | spaff |
| he;she;it | spaff |
| we | spaff |
| you | spaff |
| they | spaff |
Perfect
| I | have spaffed |
| you | have spaffed |
| he;she;it | have spaffed |
| we | have spaffed |
| you | have spaffed |
| they | have spaffed |
Imperfect
| I | spaffed |
| you | spaffed |
| he;she;it | spaffed |
| we | spaffed |
| you | spaffed |
| they | spaffed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spaffed |
| you | had spaffed |
| he;she;it | had spaffed |
| we | had spaffed |
| you | had spaffed |
| they | had spaffed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spaff |
| you | would spaff |
| he;she;it | would spaff |
| we | would spaff |
| you | would spaff |
| they | would spaff |
Perfect
| I | would have spaffed |
| you | would have spaffed |
| he;she;it | would have spaffed |
| we | would have spaffed |
| you | would have spaffed |
| they | would have spaffed |
Imperative
| you | spaff |
| we | Let's spaff |
| you | spaff |
Verbs conjugated like 'spaff'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spaff'
spiff,
spraff,
staff,
baff,
chaff,
daff,
faff,
gaff,
graff,
laff,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic.
Sample Sentences
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Whoever thought of spaffing to extinguish campfires anyway (?), you idjit. [2000, Hateplot, “dumb dumb”, in alt.comedy.standup (Usenet):]
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I think I just spaffed my pants. [2011, Mr Q. Z. Diablo, “Goblin Tomorrow”, in alt.horror (Usenet):]
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I spaffed all over my face. Some went up my nose and in my eyes. [2014, Archie Aston & friends, it's not what I call art (page 66)]
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Historically, there have been many ways to register disapproval with the Vatican leadership. Martin Luther famously nailed his 95 theses to a church door; Trump spaffed his on to Truth Social after his TV made him angry again. [2026 April 17, Marina Hyde, “Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]
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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? [2017, Claire Sandy, A Not Quite Perfect Family, Pan Macmillan, page 132:]
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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? [2019, Boris Johnson, The Boris Johnson Phone-In Live On LBC, m 2019-03-13:]
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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. [2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 114:]