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N.A.A.F.I|ˈnæfɪ|
Also NAAFI, Naafi, Naffy.
The Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes which run canteens, stores, etc., for service personnel; also, a canteen, restaurant, etc., run by this organization. Also attrib.
[1921Times 7 Jan. 7/3 The joint organization for the administration of canteens for the three Services, hitherto known as the Navy and Army Canteen Board, has been reconstituted with effect from January 1, 1921, under the title ‘The Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes’.] 1927Daily Express 16 Mar. 9/2 Cheering workgirls surrounded the Prince of Wales when he visited the ‘Naafi’..headquarters in Kennington yesterday. 1928J. Fortescue Canteens in Brit. Army 73 The general policy of the N.A.A.F.I. is to afford facilities to its members of all three services to purchase commodities of high quality at prices competitive with those of ‘multiple’ shops. 1937Partridge Dict. Slang 548/2 Nafy or Naffy; properly Naafi; loosely Narfy (..pronounced thus by Indian Army officers). The canteen: naval and military: from ca. 1930. 1940War Weekly 19 Jan. 409/3 N.A.A.F.I., or ‘Naffy’, as it is affectionately called by the troops. Ibid., The ‘Naffy’ Institute is a comfortable, red-brick building. 1943Hunt & Pringle Service Slang 47 Naffy, the services are supplied on land and sea by the N.A.A.F.I... There are fully equipped shops and grocery stores in addition to the station canteens and mobile canteens which serve outposts. Naffytime, the morning break. 1945J. Maclaren-Ross in Penguin New Writing XXVI. 54 He'd dropped his notebook in a Naffy. 1945Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 40 Naffy Romeo, a ladies' man—addicted to treating W.A.A.F. personnel with Naffy refreshments. Naffy gong, 1939–43 star (medal). Since late 1943. 1948A. M. Taylor Lang. World War II (rev. ed.) 135 The various NAAFI clubs were almost invariably called Naffies. 1959‘M. Ainsworth’ Murder is Catching 10 Best if I drop you at the Naffy. 1959Times 17 Jan. 8/4 Common rooms sometimes suggest more the Naafi than the bookman's study. 1959Spectator 23 Jan. 127/3 The NAAFI Is a sort of caafi Where soldiers are rude About the food. 1972Oxford Times 4 Aug. 5 Mr Lewin leaves Oxford for Belfast on Monday to take up an appointment as manager of a NAAFI club in the city. 1973Times 14 May 11/5 Kafka and Brasso make a great double act with a NAAFI piano. 1974R. Gentil Trained to Intrude ii. 20 At that time Dover.., apart from the pubs and the NAAFI, offered very little comfort to the serviceman. |