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busy around

/ˈbɪzi əˈraʊnd/

busy around verb: to stay busy by doing various tasks or activities.

Verb

busy around (third-person singular simple present busies around, present participle busying around, simple past and past participle busied around)

  1. To stay busy by doing various tasks or activities.
    • She stayed a long time, way past visiting hours, busying around smoothing the sheets, etc.1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

Forms of busy around

third-person singular presentbusies around
present participlebusying around
past participlebusied around
pastbusied around

Questions about busy around

What does busy around mean?
Busy around means to stay busy by doing various tasks or activities.
What part of speech is busy around?
Busy around is a verb.
How do you pronounce busy around?
Busy around is pronounced /ˈbɪzi əˈraʊnd/.
What is the past tense of busy around?
The past tense of busy around is busied around.

Words near busy around in the dictionary

  1. busway
  2. busways
  3. Buswell
  4. Buswells
  5. busy
  6. busy around
  7. busy as a beaver
  8. busy as a bee
  9. busy as a dyke in a hardware store
  10. busy as a nailer
  11. busy as a one-armed paper hanger

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