fanny about
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.
British usage; Intransitive verb; Slang
Example Sentences
- "Then he dithered and fannied about."
- "Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and forth, poured luminous liquids into glasses from great heights, and fannied about with fruit and frivolities."
- "Obviously, I smirk watching this chaos unfold, from my lofty moral vantage as a woman checking Twitter dozens of times a day, a woman who often presents her husband with meals consisting of fridge remnants as I'm too busy fannying about on the internet to cook or shop."
- "... the mechanic who tidied up after the Krays, took care of business while the Twins were fannying around the clubland circuit."
- "Out of all the random cities one gets to fanny about in Europe, all my flings are descending onto Luxembourg like a plague of horny man-teens."
Usage
- British usage
- Intransitive verb
- Slang
- Transitive verb