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terrarium

/tɛˈrɛːrɪəm/

noun

1. a vivarium for smaller land animals, especially reptiles, amphibians, or terrestrial invertebrates, typically in the form of a glass-fronted case.

   • a sealed transparent globe or similar container in which plants are grown.

faff

VERB

[NO OBJECT]British 
informal 

• Spend time in ineffectual activity.

  ‘we can't faff around forever’

NOUN

British 
informal 

• A great deal of ineffectual activity.

  ‘there was the usual faff of getting back to the plane’

Origin

Late 18th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘blow in puffs’, describing the wind): imitative. The current sense may have been influenced by dialect faffle ‘stammer, stutter’, later ‘flap in the wind’, which came to mean ‘fuss, dither’ at about the same time as faff (late 19th century).