fuck around

English

Alternative forms

• fuck about (British)

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Verb

fuck around (third-person singular simple present fucks around, present participle fucking around, simple past and past participle fucked around)

1. (slang, vulgar) To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time.

   Quit fucking around and get back to work!

2. (slang, vulgar) To fool around.

   He was just fucking around.

   • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 179:

     Also, as far as kicking someone when he's down is concerned, what is the problem here? Again, the object is to win, yes? Well, if he gets up, you might lose; therefore he must not get up. He needs to be kicked. You said you wanted to win. Or are you people just fucking around? I suspect that might be the case. Well, stop fucking around and make up your mind.

3. (slang, vulgar) To have sex with many partners.

   After the breakup, she made the most of being single and fucked around.

   • 1987 August 15, Laurie Sherman, “What's A Dyke To Do? A Lesbian Reluctantly Enters The Age Of Safe Sex”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 8:

     I sat in a sauna soon after, perusing a sexy fellow athlete who fucks around a lot and who had made it clear she could be seduced.

4. (slang, vulgar) To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly

Synonyms

• (waste time): See waste time
• (fool around): fool around, screw around
• (promiscuous sex): screw around, get around, fiddle around, sleep around
• (horseplay): horse around, joke around

Derived terms

• fuck around and find out

Translations

to procrastinate

• Armenian: մուկ տշել (muk tšel), թրեւ գալ (tʻrew gal), ճանճ բռնել (čanč bṙnel), քամի կուլ տալ (kʻami kul tal)
• Azerbaijani: lülə qurutmaq
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: viivytellä (fi), aikailla (fi)
• French: procrastiner (fr)
• Galician: foder (gl)
• German: herumtrödeln (de), herumdahlen (regional or dated)
• Hungarian: tököl (hu), totojázik (hu), pöcsöl (hu), elbassza az időt
• Italian: cazzeggiare (it)
• Polish: opierdalać się (pl) impf (vulgar)
• Russian: безде́льничать (ru) impf (bezdélʹničatʹ), лоботря́сничать (ru) impf (lobotrjásničatʹ), бить баклу́ши (ru) impf (bitʹ baklúši), валя́ть дурака́ (ru) impf (valjátʹ duraká), дура́читься (ru) (duráčitʹsja), страда́ть хуйнёй impf (stradátʹ xujnjój)
• Spanish: joder (es)
• Swedish: söla (sv), slå dank (sv), sega (sv)

to fool around; joking, bugging

• Armenian: խեղկատակություն անել (xeġkatakutʻyun anel), օյինբազություն անել (ōyinbazutʻyun anel)
• Azerbaijani: məzələnmək
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: pelleillä (fi)
• French: glander (fr), flemmarder (fr)
• Galician: putear (gl), foder (gl)
• German: herumblödeln (de)
• Greek: κωλοβαράω (el) (kolovaráo)
• Hungarian: baszakodik (hu)
• Italian: cazzeggiare (it)
• Russian: дура́читься (ru) (duráčitʹsja), валя́ть дурака́ (ru) impf (valjátʹ duraká), стра́дать хуйнёй (strádatʹ xujnjój), хуи́ пина́ть (ru) (xuí pinátʹ)
• Spanish: putear (es), joder (es), molestar (es), huevear (es) (Chile), fregar (es) (Ecuador), mamar (es) (Mexico)

to have sex with many partners

• Armenian: ման գալ (hy) (man gal)
• Azerbaijani: paylamaq (az) (of women), döydürmək (of women), sağa-sola vermək (of women), qəhbəlik eləmək (of women)
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亂搞／乱搞 (zh) (luàngǎo), 胡搞 (zh) (húgǎo)

• Czech: kurvit se (cs) f or impf, kurevničit m or impf
• Finnish: huorata (fi), olla kenen kanssa sattuu
• French: (informal) coucher à droite et à gauche
• German: herumhuren (de)
• Hungarian: fűvel-fával dug/kefél/kúr
• Russian: развра́тничать (ru) impf (razvrátničatʹ), распу́тничать (ru) impf (raspútničatʹ), блядова́ть (ru) impf (bljadovátʹ) (vulgar)
• Swedish: knulla runt (sv), ligga runt

to behave immaturely

• Azerbaijani: oynamaq (az), məzələnmək, şitlik eləmək
• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hölmöillä (fi)
• German: herumkaspern, herumalbern (de)
• Italian: cazzeggiare (it)
• Russian: выёбываться impf (vyjóbyvatʹsja), вы́ебнуться (ru) pf (výjebnutʹsja) (vulgar)
• Swedish: barnsla (sv) sig, larva (sv) sig, tramsa (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked‌: "to fool around; joking; bugging"

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} шегувам се (šeguvam se)
• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} fotre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 瞎混 (zh) (xia hun)

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} aankloten
• French: ^{(please verify)} déconner (fr)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} apipisti
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} зајебавати, ^{(please verify)} јебати (vulgar)

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} zajebavati (sh), ^{(please verify)} jebati (sh)