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fannied about

fannied about is the simple past and past participle of fanny about.

Meaning of fanny about

Verb

fanny about (third-person singular simple present fannies about, present participle fannying about, simple past and past participle fannied about)

  1. (UK, intransitive, slang) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.
    • Then he dithered and fannied about.1977, Jon Fleming et al., Soldiers on Everest, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, page 97
  2. (UK, intransitive, slang, transitive) To wander about or prowl around.
    • ... the mechanic who tidied up after the Krays, took care of business while the Twins were fannying around the clubland circuit.2001, Iain Sinclair, Landor's Tower, →ISBN, page 287
    Synonyms:
    bum around

Questions about fannied about

What is fannied about the simple past and past participle of?
Fannied about is the simple past and past participle of fanny about.

Words near fannied about in the dictionary

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  2. Fannibal
  3. Fannibals
  4. Fannie
  5. Fannie Mae
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  8. fannies
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  10. fannies around
  11. fanniid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fannied about (page history and authors); fanny about (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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