wasping around

Verb

wasp around (third-person singular simple present wasps around, present participle wasping around, simple past and past participle wasped around)

1. To hover or loiter aimlessly around a place.
   • Sharp was a little man, had a long face, and his mouth seemed to have been bored — for it was round — about midway between his chin and his forehead; and he was always wasping around, giving consequential orders about nothing […]1875, Henry Hiram Riley, The Puddleford Papers: Or, Humors of the West, page 174