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Naff horse

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1966, OED Evaluation: British colloquial

(Naff only) Unfashionable, vulgar; lacking in style, inept; worthless, faulty.

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Interviewer: What would you call the horse on the left, if you were driving a team? Speaker: Ah, that'd be the nye-horse. Interviewer: And the one on the right? Speaker: Naff-horse.
A horse on the right in a horse team.
Speaker: Jake Marshall, Gender: Male, Age at interview: 73, Interview: 1976, Lanark County
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