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SirCreamy | 13:49 Mon 18th Aug 2014 | Crosswords
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An elevating Kipling poem of unaffected simplicity(4)n?i?
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An reversed + If Means Naive
13:50 Mon 18th Aug 2014
Naif
naif
naif ( an reversed +if )
An reversed + If

Means Naive
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Thank You!New One to Me!
And me. Though I do remember Princess Anne telling reporters to 'Naff off'. But something different meant there, I expect.
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It must be a colloquial or Dialect word!Scotch/Irish or Lancs?
Alternate spelling of naive
I think we all knew what she meant but did the word come from the TV programme, Porridge? Fletcher used it a lot.
naif is the masculine form of naive.

I think the first written use of naff off was in Billy Liar but no doubt it was in spoken use well before that.
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naïf or naif adj naive.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c. . .. . .. . so well before BL
naff off, not naif off, Baldric!

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