Naff

I used the word naff in the last post, and afterwards I wondered where it came from, so I offered it up to the Wiki Gods and here is what they says...

It has several meanings:

• Something which is seen to be particularly "cheesy" or "tacky" or in otherwise poor aesthetic taste.
• The word can also be used to describe something that is poorly thought out, doesn't really work, or is otherwise not very good.
• A general curse word, which gained widespread usage in the 1970s, when the word was used in the TV series Porridge, in order to get around television censorship at the time.
• Heterosexual. The word first gained usage amongst those of the gay subculture in London. Part of the gay polari slang of the 1950s and 1960s, the word was used as a dismissive term towards heterosexuals. It has been suggested that the word Naff is an acronym for "Not Available For Fucking", or "Normal as Fuck". However, they are more likely to be backronyms.

*snort* they used the word 'backronyms' in a paragraph about homosexuals and fucking...