futz around
English
Verb
futz around (third-person singular simple present futzes around, present participle futzing around, simple past and past participle futzed around)
- (Northern US, slang) To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker.
- (Northern US, slang) To mess or interfere with.
- 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:
- I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.