Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to talk, to chat.

1994		I. Welsh ‘Wayne Foster’ in Acid House 83: A heard two boys spraffin aboot it.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 27: He’s spraffing the same auld fuckin shite.
2009		T. Black Gutted 108: A couple of yobs emerged, spraffin’ away together.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 53: She’s awright when ye get spraffin’ wi her.
2012		J. Fagan Panopticon (2013) 28: The laddies are spraffing away [...] downstairs [Ibid.] 97: I canne understand what the fuck they’re spraffing about.