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futz around

Sl. to waste time. Stop futzing around and get the job done. I wish you would stop futzing around!

Futz something up

Sl. to mess something up. Who futzed the computer up? I don't want to futz up the deal, so I will be quiet.

putz around

Inf. to fiddle around; to mess around. Stop some time puzzling over her. While I was puzzling over putzing around and get to work. Those guys spend most why she had slapped me, she did it again, of their time just putzing around.

futz around

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]

See also: around, futz

futz around

v. Slang

1. To act foolishly, playfully, or without a clear sense of purpose; goof off: The kids were futzing around so much that they didn't finish their chores.

2. To manipulate something without a clear sense of purpose: Stop futzing around with the door handle, or you'll break it.

See also: around, futz

futz up

v. Slang

To fail at or make a mess of something: I read the speech as well as I could, but I futzed it up. We futzed up the trip because we got lost. Don't drink before going onstage—you'll futz up.

futz with

v. Slang

To manipulate something without a clear sense of purpose: The child futzed with the toy, and then it broke.

futz something up

tv. to mess something up. I don’t want to futz up the deal, so I will be quiet.

phutz

and futz (fəts)

tv. to rob, swindle, or cheat someone. Don’t futz me! Tell the truth!

futz

verb

See phutz

putz around

and futz around

in. to waste time; to do something ineffectually. (Putz is probably putz (sense 1).) Get busy and stop putzing around.

futz around

verb

See putz around

See also: around, futz

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For three years, Grubbs and O'Rourke have constantly futzed the musical boundaries of the hybrid genre of "innovation," one they seem to spontaneously reinvent; the band specializes above all in bringing together sources as disparate as rock, folk, and contemporary experimental music (especially Cage), as well as Satie, Stravinsky, atonal music, and the found noises of the street and the apartment.