fanny about
Verb
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Verb
- (chiefly, British, intransitive, idiomatic) To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.
- 1977, Jon Fleming et al., Soldiers on Everest, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 97 ↗:
- Then he dithered and fannied about.
- 2011, Grace Dent, The Guardian, 8 Jul 2011:
- Obviously, I smirk watching this chaos unfold, from my lofty moral vantage as a woman checking Twitter dozens of times a day, a woman who often presents her husband with meals consisting of fridge remnants as I'm too busy fannying about on the internet to cook or shop.
- 1977, Jon Fleming et al., Soldiers on Everest, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 97 ↗:
- (chiefly, British, transitive and intransitive, idiomatic) To wander about or prowl around.
- 2009, Lucy Hunt, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090531121000/http://lifestyle.iafrica.com/love_sex/sex_on_stilettos/1701290.htm No more broken hearts?]," iafrica.com, 27 May (retrieved 8 Sept. 2009):
- Out of all the random cities one gets to fanny about in Europe, all my flings are descending onto Luxembourg like a plague of horny man-teens.
- 2009, Lucy Hunt, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20090531121000/http://lifestyle.iafrica.com/love_sex/sex_on_stilettos/1701290.htm No more broken hearts?]," iafrica.com, 27 May (retrieved 8 Sept. 2009):
- (waste time) faff around, bum around, putter, fart around (mildly vulgar), beat the meat (vulgar)
- (wander or prowl around) bum around
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