(Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of faff

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pfaff

plural of Pfaff

A surname from German.

simple past tense and past participle of pfaff

present participle of pfaff

plural of Pfaffian

(mathematics) The determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix, capable of being written as the square of a polynomial in the matrix entries.

(historical) A member of a circle of artists that met at Pfaff's, a restaurant on Broadway.

Alternative letter-case form of Pfaffian