muck about
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muck about
verb mucks about · mucking about · mucked about
- To do random unplanned work or spend time idly Stop mucking about and get on with your work!
- To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works. Don't muck about with the video machine, or you might break it.
- To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to treat a situation unseriously. It was only a joke. We were only mucking about.
- To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person). Then he started stalling. In the end he mucked me about so much that I lost my patience and decided to nick the books from him.
Similar: fiddle around, fool about, fuck about, fuck around, goof around, goof off, mess about, mess around, muck around, muck up, play around, screw around
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Similar: fiddle around, fool about, fuck about, fuck around, goof around, goof off, mess about, mess around, muck around, muck up, play around, screw around
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verb spend time idly
| Español | tontear |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | herumgammeln |
| Русский | бить баклуши bitʹ bakluši |
verb do something with a piece of equipment when you do not understand how it works
| Deutsch | herumspielen |
|---|---|
| Русский | рукосуйствовать rukosujstvovatʹ |
verb be playful
| Español | payasear, tontear |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | herumalbern |
| Русский | озорничать ozorničatʹ, шалить šalitʹ |
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