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单词 to fool around
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to 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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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).
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