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Also, futz with . Waste time or effort on frivolities, play around. For example, He spent all morning futzing around with the report , or No more futzing with the car—we have to go now . This term may be a shortening and corruption of the Yiddish arumfartzen , for “fart around.” [ Slang ; 1920s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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