putz around

putz around

1. slang To engage in aimless recreation or frivolous time-wasting; to fool around. I can't believe we spent the whole day just putzing around.

2. slang To play or tinker with something. Hey, don't putz around with the thermostat—it needs to stay at 68 degrees. Grandpa's still putzing around with that old radio, but I doubt he'll get it to work again.

See also: around, putz

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2015 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

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.

See also: around, putz

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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.

See also: around, putz

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