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To behave in a foolish or comical manner
To toy with
To make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
To be engaged in a love affair, typically one of which the speaker disapproves
To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner
To interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations
Make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience
Shilly-shally
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To behave in a foolish or comical manner
joke
clown
jest
fool around
clown around
horse around
lark about
play the fool
be silly
play for laughs
mess around
act the goat
muck about
fool about
muck around
act the fool
footle about
footle around
clown about
monkey around
act the clown
act the jennet
act the maggot
lark
fiddle around
lark around
play the giddy goat
act foolishly
monkey about
play around
play up
footle
misbehave
indulge in horseplay
fanny about
fanny around
be naughty
be bad
cause trouble
play the goat
act the giddy goat
have fun
act up
carry on
fribble
lollygag
futz
idle
hang about
goof around
potter around
kick around
get up to mischief
fiddle about
potter
get up to no good
horse about
frolic
puddle around
puddle about
caper
romp
cavort
make mischief
sport
play tricks
gambol
frisk
behave badly
skylark
trifle
rollick
forget oneself
act badly
disport
cut up
play
doodle
misconduct oneself
give someone trouble
putter around
amuse oneself
dally
dawdle
disport oneself
fiddle
hang around
waste time
play about
sin
trespass
engage in high jinks
transgress
lapse
fall
act crazy
bug out
kid around
offend
wander
degenerate
stray
go wrong
deviate
do wrong
err
be out of order
fall from grace
go astray
blot your copybook
do nothing much
muck
piddle
fritter
piddle around
tinker around
potter about
piddle about
tinker about
puddle
mess
fanny
tinker
toy
rest
relax
revel
be mischievous
kill time
let go
amuse yourself
cut capers
make merry
jump
rejoice
enjoy oneself
play games
fool
have a good time
recreate
divert oneself
be at leisure
carouse
let loose
divert
go on a spree
occupy oneself
entertain oneself
kid
idle away
engage in games
be life of party
enjoy yourself
let your hair down
kick up one's heels
cause a commotion
create
cause a fuss
kick back
goof off
lazy
laze
loll
bum
dillydally
chill
hang out
lounge
drone
hack around
loaf
veg out
lose it
be up to no good
be indecorous
play pranks
screw around
more ❯
Verb
▲
To toy with
trifle with
dally with
flirt with
play with
toy with
treat casually
treat frivolously
treat lightly
amuse oneself with
mess around
palter with
sport with
wanton with
treat in a cavalier fashion
play ducks and drakes with
play fast and loose with
fool with
tease
philander
Verb
▲
To make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fool
jest
joke
kid
act
fake
feign
pretend
sham
banter
chaff
fun
gag
jape
jive
jolly
josh
mess
quip
tease
wisecrack
yuck
yuk
counterfeit
clown about
clown around
play tricks
make believe
mess around
play the fool
put on an act
have on
muck around
muck someone about
wind up
fool around
fool about
trick
lark
lark around
set up
make mischief
lark about
rib
deride
razz
mock
taunt
frolic
rally
ridicule
gambol
ride
hoax
roast
shuck
rot someone
put someone on
play a joke
pull someone's chain
play a prank
play a trick
play a practical joke
make a monkey out of
pull someone's leg
pull one's leg
slang
rag
make fun of
poke fun at
take the mickey
needle
laugh at
satirize
US
twit
pun
make sport of
send up
satirise
UK
put on
take the piss out of
spoof
quiz
jeer at
scoff at
jeer
jibe at
rag on
goof on
poke mullock at
sling off at
bait
gibe
chiack
guy
sally
smoke
make jokes about
make a joke
be sarcastic about
make a monkey of
jibe
goad
rot
lampoon
parody
pick on
flout at
poke borak at
retort
be facetious
annoy
heckle
harass
burlesque
bother
play with words
sledge
haze
scoff
flout
tell jokes
mimic
caricature
crack a joke
play
crack
remark
sneer
scorn
sneer at
treat contemptuously
raspberry
treat with contempt
pillory
gird
frazzle
laugh to scorn
crack wise
have a joke with
call names
amuse
flip
laugh
prank
divert
entertain
crack jokes
have a laugh
tell stories
have a joke on somebody
dupe
deceive
hoodwink
delude
beguile
gull
cozen
con
bamboozle
lead up the garden path
play a joke on
joke with
play a trick on
take for a ride
take in
flimflam
mislead
yank someone's chain
travesty
imitate
do
ape
copy
take off
mime
distort
pervert
misrepresent
do a takeoff of
disparage
sheikh
UK
do an impression of
sheik
US
impersonate
exaggerate
twist
torment
plague
worry
hassle
pester
harry
provoke
badger
irritate
aggravate
bedevil
hector
importune
vex
devil
nudge
gnaw
beleaguer
disturb
tantalize
US
slam
dog
sound
snap
tantalise
UK
put down
lead on
flirt with
swipe at
be at
give a hard time
more ❯
Verb
▲
To be engaged in a love affair, typically one of which the speaker disapproves
carry on
philander
dally
commit adultery
play around
be involved
fool around
have an affair
mess around
play away
have a fling
flirt
coquet
womanize
US
womanise
UK
swing
sleep around
play the field
screw around
toy with someone's affections
trifle with someone's affections
have affairs affair
stray
wander
have affairs
be a man-eater
fool
trifle
woo
play
frivol
toy
coquette
tinker
seduce
trifle with
amuse oneself
philander with
court
play fast and loose
come on to
hit on
dally with
be all over
tease
proposition
make a pass
make a move
lead on
toy with
chat up
wink at
give the come-on to
string along
bat eyes at
make eyes at
come on
make advances
make advances at
titillate
wanton
play games
behave flirtatiously
cheat
wolf
pull
vamp
gam
take lightly
be a carpet knight
dally with someone's affections
step out
pick up
come hither
set your cap at
make romantic advances to
make sheep's eyes at
more ❯
Verb
▲
To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner
tinker
monkey
play
toy
dabble
fiddle
fiddle with
meddle
play with
potter
trifle with
dally with
toy with
adjust slightly
dabble with
doodle
fix
interfere
interfere with
meddle with
mend
mess
muck about
niggle
play about with
play around with
puddle
putter
repair
tamper
tamper with
try to improve
try to mend
work amateurishly on
fool about with
fool around with
potter about with
fool around
mess about with
mess around
mess around with
mess with
monkey around
muck about with
muck around with
put right
take apart
tinker at the edges of
tinker with the edges of
play around
rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic
bumble
trifle
touch
feel
handle
fool
finger
paw
thumb
fuss
twiddle
fool about
pick at
fool with
monkey with
fidget
adjust
tinker with
experiment
frivol
flirt
play games with
amuse oneself
poke
wink at
twirl
jiggle
play about
touch without permission
handle without permission
swivel
wiggle
turn
juggle
twist
move
fidget with
play at
amuse oneself with
potter around with
muck around
potter about
potter round with
flirt with
work superficially
stroke
caress
maul
fondle
rub
manipulate
grab
palpate
manhandle
pull
grope
twiddle with
put one's hands on
lay a finger on
more ❯
Verb
▲
To interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations
tamper
interfere
meddle
tinker
fiddle
alter
change
dabble
damage
doctor
monkey around
toy
trifle
adjust
deface
harm
vandalise
UK
vandalize
US
fiddle about
fiddle around
fool about
fool around
play about
play around
ruin
busybody
cook
cut
destroy
diversify
fool
interlope
interpose
intrude
irrigate
manipulate
mess around
muck about
plant
spike
vary
water
do damage to
do mischief to
muck around
butt in
fiddle with
fool with
horn in
monkey with
phony up
mess around with
poke one's nose into
play
monkey about
monkey
finger
touch without permission
handle without permission
mess
frivol
flirt
trifle with
potter about with
play at
potter around with
flirt with
play with
amuse oneself
experiment
toy with
play games with
amuse oneself with
mess with
fidget
potter about
dally with
tinker with
potter round with
work superficially
more ❯
Verb
▲
Make small movements, especially of the hands and feet, through nervousness or impatience
fidget
squirm
twitch
fiddle
jiggle
wriggle
twist
writhe
shuffle
fuss
play
toy
trifle
twiddle
bustle
chafe
fret
jerk
jig
move restlessly
squiggle
thrash
thresh
toss
wiggle
be jittery
jitter
worry
be agitated
be anxious
fool about
fool around
hitch
joggle
jump
stir
mess around
be antsy
be hyper
be nervous
be spooked
be wired
move about
move around
play around
be on pins and needles
be like a cat on hot bricks
have ants in one's pants
convulse
quiver
shake
wobble
agitate
jounce
jolt
shudder
flounder
flail
waggle
worm
toss and turn
vibrate
quake
judder
wabble
rattle
shimmy
turn
wag
jog
flutter
agonize
US
struggle
roll
zigzag
bucket
agonise
UK
bob
bounce
twist and turn
budge
bobble
vellicate
thrash about
jostle
jigger
shimmer
change position
buck
wave
jar
heave
plunge
distort
labor
US
shift
labour
UK
contort
recoil
suffer
bend
wince
slide
slither
skew
wind
feel uncomfortable
shiver
tremble
spasm
quaver
blink
lurch
move spasmodically
nip
contract
clutch
seize
grasp
grip
kick
twinge
grab
tic
beat
move convulsively
clasp
pain
palpitate
lug
snap
rock
oscillate
tremor
flap
bump
sway
waver
swing
seesaw
totter
pump
stagger
twitter
reel
move
fluctuate
knock
move up and down
dither
nod
bang
undulate
skip
pitch
hop
careen
disturb
swish
weave
tumble
dance
throb
pulsate
jump around
whip
switch
flicker
dodder
teeter
grind
push
gyrate
quave
thrill
pulse
thrust
quail
start
vacillate
grope
fumble
roil
rouse
work
wigwag
shove
nudge
concuss
shake like a leaf
bother
torment
shake violently
shake uncontrollably
unsettle
cast about
yank
move about
list
swing backwards and forwards
move to and fro
swing back and forth
keel
flourish
flitter
flit
commove
succuss
flaunt
churn
ruffle
pitchpole
spring
go into spasms
shake up
suffer a fit
brandish
float
stir up
veer
set in motion
put in motion
flail about
ditch
chuck
dump
buffet
move from side to side
wave to and fro
toss around
let fly
rise and fall
hang
stumble
falter
waddle
slip
dangle
drop
droop
sag
dodge
yaw
tilt
move to the side
duck
lean
bumble
wallow
move clumsily
blunder
loll
hang loosely
hang limply
topple
fall limply
fall down
slacken
flop
flag
lop
hang down
wilt
more ❯
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Shilly-shally
faff about
hesitate
waver
vacillate
shilly-shally
faff around
falter
teeter
haver
procrastinate
fluctuate
swither
oscillate
dawdle
dally
stagger
wobble
balance
hang back
wabble
stall
temporize
US
scruple
halt
delay
blow hot and cold
dither
be ambivalent
pussyfoot around
waste time
be unsure
be indecisive
sit on the fence
hum and haw
be in two minds
temporise
UK
be undecided
shillyshally
dilly-dally
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