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futz around

futz around verb: to waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker.

Verb

futz around (third-person singular simple present futzes around, present participle futzing around, simple past and past participle futzed around)

  1. (Northern-US, slang) To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker.
  2. (Northern-US, slang) To mess or interfere with.
    • I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

Forms of futz around

third-person singular presentfutzes around
present participlefutzing around
past participlefutzed around
pastfutzed around

Questions about futz around

What does futz around mean?
Futz around means to waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker.
What part of speech is futz around?
Futz around is a verb.
What is the past tense of futz around?
The past tense of futz around is futzed around.

Words near futz around in the dictionary

  1. futwa
  2. futwah
  3. futwahs
  4. futwas
  5. futz
  6. futz around
  7. futz with
  8. futzed
  9. futzed around
  10. futzed with
  11. futzer

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