单词 | to fool around |
释义 | > as lemmasto fool around to fool around 1. intransitive. To pass the time in idle or unfocused activity; to work at something without definite purpose or serious intent; to mess about, tinker.Sometimes with the stronger implication that the activity is foolish, typically because dangerous or irresponsible; cf. to fool with —— 1 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > be idle or unoccupied [verb (intransitive)] > potter or waste time in trifling activity trifle?a1400 loiterc1400 tiffc1440 tifflec1440 to pick a salad1520 to play the wanton1529 fiddle1530 dauntc1540 piddle1545 dally?1548 pittlea1568 pingle1574 puddle1591 to thrum caps1594 maginate1623 meecha1625 pudder1624 dabble1631 fanfreluche1653 dawdlea1656 taigle17.. niff-naff1728 tiddle1747 peddle1755 gammer1788 quiddle1789 muddle1791 browse1803 niddle1808 poke1811 fal-lal1818 potter1824 footer1825 putter1827 shaffle1828 to fool about1838 mike1838 piffle1847 mess1853 to muck about1856 tinker1856 bohemianize1857 to fool around1860 frivol1866 june1869 muss1876 to muddle about (also around)1877 slummock1877 dicker1888 moodle1893 to fart about1899 to fart about (or around)1899 plouter1899 futz1907 monkey1916 to arse around1919 to play around1929 to fuck around1931 tool1932 frig1933 boondoggle1935 to muck around1935 to screw around1935 to bugger about1937 to bugger around1939 to piss about1943 to dick around1948 to jerk around1953 fart-arse1954 to fanny around1969 slop1973 dork1982 to twat around (or about)1992 to dick about1996 1860 Quincy (Illinois) Weekly Whig & Republican 14 July You may fool around..and try to straddle this question, but it won't amount to anything. 1885 Cent. Mag. 29 545/1 They [sc. the pursuers] seemed to stop and fool around awhile. 1951 Megaphone (Georgetown, Texas) (Student's Assoc. Southwestern Univ.) 23 Mar. 3/3 This guy after getting the idea..tinkered, puttered, jacked, and fooled around for 15 or 20 years and finally this machine emerged. 2002 Time 26 Aug. a10/1 Environmentalists worry that fooling around with genes is a recipe for Frankensteinian disaster. 2004 B. Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1 iv. 190 At about three in the morning we..just started playing any old stuff... Just fooling around, playing like we were on a party boat. 2. intransitive. To behave in a playful, joking, or silly way; to muck about.Frequently with the connotation that the behaviour is irritating, and sometimes more strongly, irresponsible. ΚΠ 1878 Cornelian 1877–8 86 Monkey, to fool around. 1895 Helena (Montana) Weekly Independent 12 Dec. 5/1 ‘You say that Mr. Horsky was always fooling around?’ responded the attorney. ‘Yes; he is always acting the dunce,’ was the reply. 1938 J. Fante Wait until Spring, Bandini (1983) i. 37 ‘For Christ's sake!’ he said. ‘Will you drink that milk and quit fooling around?’ 1992 B. Geist Little League Confidential iii. 33 Focus is always the problem. Kids like to fool around too much these days. They can't concentrate anymore. 2016 Times of India (Nexis) 5 Jan. I might be childish and might fool around all the time but I do have a romantic side to me. 3. intransitive. To engage in a casual sexual relationship, esp. to have sexual relationship with someone who is married or who is not one's usual partner; to have an affair. Also: to be habitually unfaithful to one's partner. Frequently with with. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be promiscuous to play legerdeheel1605 to put it about1817 to do the (also a) naughty1902 to fool around1923 sleep1928 to play around1929 alleycat1937 to screw around1939 bed-hop1943 tom1950 horse1953 to whore it up1956 swing1964 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [verb (intransitive)] > be unfaithful to fool around1923 to cheat on1934 two-time1975 1923 S. Anderson Horses & Men 52 It is better not to fool around with a young girl or with some other man's wife. 1978 P. Grace Mutuwhenua iv. 16 You fool around with my girl and I'll boot your head. 1980 Los Angeles Times 2 Nov. (Bk. Review) 12/3 He fools around on his wife. 2013 Afr. News (Nexis) 10 Oct. After the house girl saga, this ninja went ahead to fool around with his wife's cousin who had come over for a brief stay. True story. 4. intransitive. To engage in kissing, petting, etc., with someone (as opposed to having sexual intercourse). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress or make a show of affection [verb (intransitive)] > fondle, embrace, or caress neck1825 to fool around1959 1959 W. Brown Teen-age Mafia 34 You and me, we ain't done nothing but fool around like a couple of babies. Do you think I like it, getting worked up every night and never getting no more? 1994 A. Birnbaum tr. H. Murakami Dance Dance Dance (1995) 145 But we didn't go all the way, as we used to say. We only fooled around. 2006 Myrtle Beach (S. Carolina) Sun-News (Nexis) 6 Oct. 34 I finally gave in and fooled around with him on the fourth night (no sex). < as lemmas |
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