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Naff vs Zhlubby - What's the difference?

naff | zhlubby |

As a proper noun naff

is .

As an adjective zhlubby is

(rare).

naff

English

Adjective

(er)
  • In poor taste.
    • That tie is a bit naff , don’t you think?
  • (Polari) Bad; tasteless.
  • Poorly thought out, not workable, or otherwise not very good.
    • That’s a really naff example.
  • (Polari) Heterosexual.

    • Derived terms

    * naff all * naff off (a euphemism for fuck off).

    References

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    zhlubby

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare)
  • naff, unfashionable, tasteless
    • * 2003 , William Safire, THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 10-5-03: ON LANGUAGE; Zhlub''> ''THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: 10-5-03: ON LANGUAGE; Zhlub'', ''The New York Times , October 5, 2003 *: In a recent issue of New York magazine, the media maven Michael Wolff, writing about the creative political fund-raising of Howard Dean, derided as "populist fantasy" the notion "that the Internet is some great mall of ordinary, uninformed, and uninterested zhlubs who have just been more efficiently organized, and by the wonders of the medium, happily politicized." On the contrary, Wolff observed, people reached on the Internet were those "whose very engagement (even overengagement) separates them most from ordinary zhlubby citizens."