futz
/fʌts
/verb [no object] North American informal
Waste time; idle or busy oneself aimlessly: mother futzed around in the kitchen...
- After futzing with it for almost an hour with one of our local computer gurus, the connection came back just as magically as it had disappeared.
- Andy was futzing through the entertainment center looking for CDs to burn.
- Meanwhile Bianca futzes with drumbeats; it seems like she has trouble finding the right speed.
Origin
1930s: perhaps an alteration of Yiddish arumfartzen 'fart about'.
Rhymes
- Bern
- Bernadette, St
- Bernadotte, Folke
- Bernadotte, Jean Baptiste Jules
- Bernard, Claude
- Bernard of Clairvaux, St
- Bernard, St
- Berne
- Berne Convention
- Berners-Lee, Sir Tim
- Bernese
- Bernese mountain dog
- Bernhardt, Sarah
- Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
- Bernoulli
- Bernoulli's principle
- Bernstein, Carl
- Bernstein, Leonard
- be rolling in it (or in money)
- Berra, Yogi
- berried
- berry
- Berry, Chuck
- Berryman, John
- bersagliere