guff off

English

Verb

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.