faff

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I couldn't be bothered to 'faff' about - I was still sore from falling on black ice yesterday - and so cold - so it was a quick fix.

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  • Or, at least, measures that I can understand the wisdom and sense in their implementing - but would rather not have to contend (faff about) with myself. —  Eurogamer
  • Prime Ministers faff about on foreign trips, insisting that there is no crisis. —  Telegraph Blogs
  • A lot of the songs on the album are more 'epic ballad' than generic rock song; which we have seen fellow rockers Shinedown adopt on their latest album too; and with many of the songs pushing four minutes; the guys have time to faff around making it sounds all pretty. —  Entertainment - Female First
  • However as many buyers may not know, the Transformer Vac has no rolling beater brush making thread and hair pick up difficult unless you faff about with changing it to a hand held part of its design, fish out the extension pipes and push on the pet hair turbo brush. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • So they will continue to fiddle and faff about while Rome, Madrid, Dublin and Berlin burn. —  Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
 

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