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Verb
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
Present participle for to pass time doing unimportant things
Present participle for to behave badly, mischievously, or in an overemotional way
Present participle for to be engaged in a love affair, typically one of which the speaker disapproves
Present participle for to tinker or fiddle with something
Present participle for to hesitate, waver, or vacillate, creating unnecessary delays or inefficiency
Present participle for to interfere with something, typically causing damage or harm to it
Present participle for to toy or trifle with, especially another person or their emotions
Present participle for to waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully
Noun
Mischievous play, especially by children
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Verb
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Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
jesting
joking
clowning
fooling around
clowning around
horsing around
larking about
playing the fool
playing for laughs
messing around
acting the jennet
acting the goat
acting the maggot
fooling about
kidding
messing
jiving
joshing
quipping
funning
teasing
chaffing
mucking about
having on
playing tricks
fooling
mucking around
winding up
larking
playing the giddy goat
acting the giddy goat
playing the goat
goofing around
larking around
taunting
putting someone on
gambolling
UK
pulling one's leg
ribbing
pulling someone's chain
mocking
playing a practical joke
hoaxing
razzing
pulling someone's leg
roasting
deriding
gamboling
US
rallying
shucking
playing a prank
playing a trick
frolicking
riding
ridiculing
rotting someone
playing a joke
making a monkey out of
acting
pretending
faking
feigning
shamming
wisecracking
yucking
japing
jollying
bantering
yukking
gagging
counterfeiting
putting on an act
clowning about
mucking someone about
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“I could tell that they were trying to
mess about
with me when they kept making playful comments and teasing jokes throughout the evening.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to pass time doing unimportant things
footling about
messing around
footling around
puddling around
mucking
fiddling about
piddling
pottering about
pottering
piddling about
mucking about
footling
fiddling around
piddling around
amusing oneself
lollygagging
fribbling
doing nothing much
frittering
fannying about
mucking around
puddling about
pottering around
Verb
▲
Present participle for to behave badly, mischievously, or in an overemotional way
carrying on
misbehaving
behaving badly
making mischief
acting up
causing trouble
acting foolishly
causing a commotion
causing a fuss
clowning about
clowning around
creating
fooling about
fooling around
messing around
acting the clown
acting the fool
acting the goat
getting up to mischief
mucking about
mucking around
playing up
getting up to no good
losing it
showboating
hotdogging
skylarking
forgetting oneself
giving someone trouble
misconducting oneself
showing off
cutting up
horsing around
monkeying around
making trouble
stirring the pot
getting into mischief
transgressing
trespassing
sinning
acting out
going wrong
doing wrong
going astray
bending the law
stirring up trouble
rebelling
giving trouble
offending
sowing wild oats
running riot
showing poor manners
showing bad manners
deviating
raising Cain
misconducting
doing evil
taking a wrong turn
disobeying
roughhousing
lapsing
degenerating
acting improperly
falling from grace
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to be engaged in a love affair, typically one of which the speaker disapproves
carrying on
philandering
dallying
committing adultery
playing around
being involved
fooling around
having an affair
messing around
playing away
having a fling
monkeying around
fooling about
mucking about
larking
monkeying about
playing
trifling
clowning
having fun
mucking around
larking around
larking about
acting the fool
indulging in horseplay
clowning around
horsing around
toying
coquetting
acting the goat
capering
frolicking
flirting
cavorting
romping
gambolling
UK
gamboling
US
sporting
skylarking
rollicking
jesting
playing the fool
playing about
playing the giddy goat
womanizing
US
clowning about
acting the clown
fiddling around
womanising
UK
playing tricks
fooling
screwing around
horsing about
cutting up
fiddling
frisking
doodling
disporting
fribbling
joking
japing
sleeping around
making mischief
puttering around
kicking around
acting foolishly
footling around
acting crazy
engaging in high jinks
hanging about
playing the goat
disporting oneself
fannying about
footling about
kidding around
swinging
fiddling about
playing the field
goofing around
joking around
playing for laughs
pottering around
hanging around
playing up
acting the giddy goat
playing pranks
puddling about
having affairs
having affairs affair
wandering
straying
meddling
tampering
interfering
fidgeting
twiddling
fidgetting
tricking
winding up
idling
lollygagging
futzing
footling
courting
frivoling
frivolling
wooing
philandering with
playing fast and loose
trifling with
coming on to
seducing
tinkering
hitting on
dallying with
reveling
US
revelling
UK
relaxing
resting
entertaining oneself
carousing
letting go
letting loose
idling away
making merry
having a good time
cutting capers
diverting oneself
occupying oneself
engaging in games
enjoying oneself
jumping
playing games
letting your hair down
amusing yourself
enjoying yourself
kidding
rejoicing
going on a spree
recreating
diverting
amusing oneself
kicking up one's heels
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to tinker or fiddle with something
bumbling
tinkering
meddling
playing
fiddling
toying
dabbling
monkeying
pottering
mucking about
messing
doodling
messing with
playing with
fooling around
messing around
interfering
tampering
puddling
puttering
adjusting slightly
rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
trifling with
pottering about with
mucking about with
tampering with
messing around with
tinkering with the edges of
playing about with
messing about with
monkeying around
tinkering at the edges of
meddling with
playing around with
dabbling with
fooling around with
playing around
fooling about with
fiddling with
dallying with
interfering with
toying with
mucking around with
working amateurishly on
trifling
touching
feeling
handling
fooling
fingering
pawing
thumbing
twiddling
fussing
fooling about
picking at
monkeying with
fooling with
tinkering with
experimenting
adjusting
fidgetting with
handling without permission
touching without permission
poking
altering
playing about
tweaking
monkeying around with
swiveling
US
swivelling
UK
mucking around
turning
jiggling
wiggling
moving
twisting
fidgeting
fidgetting
twirling
guddling
exploring
noodling
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to hesitate, waver, or vacillate, creating unnecessary delays or inefficiency
faffing about
hesitating
wavering
vacillating
shilly-shallying
faffing around
faltering
sitting on the fence
procrastinating
swithering
havering
teetering
pussyfooting around
humming and hawing
delaying
dithering
wobbling
dallying
temporizing
US
stalling
fluctuating
dilly-dallying
staggering
scrupling
hanging back
balancing
blowing hot and cold
dawdling
oscillating
wasting time
halting
wabbling
temporising
UK
Verb
▲
Present participle for to interfere with something, typically causing damage or harm to it
messing around
meddling
interfering
tampering
damaging
defacing
harming
vandalising
UK
vandalizing
US
ruining
manipulating
fooling
mucking about
doing damage to
doing mischief to
mucking around
fooling with
fiddling
toying
tinkering
trifling
fiddling about
interloping
spiking
doctoring
poking one's nose into
changing
fiddling around
monkeying with
adjusting
fooling about
butting in
playing around
altering
messing around with
fooling around
playing about
destroying
fiddling with
dabbling
cutting
planting
horning in
monkeying around
intruding
monkeying
playing
experimenting
messing
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to toy or trifle with, especially another person or their emotions
trifling with
dallying with
flirting with
playing with
sporting with
toying with
treating casually
treating frivolously
treating lightly
amusing oneself with
messing around
paltering with
wantoning with
treating in a cavalier fashion
playing ducks and drakes with
playing fast and loose with
Verb
▲
Present participle for to waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully
footling
idling
lazing
lounging
loafing
lolling
dawdling
dallying
lazying
bumming
dillydallying
chilling
chillin
droning
pottering
futzing
hanging about
goofing off
kicking around
kicking back
vegging out
hacking around
hanging around
hanging out
fooling around
fiddling around
messing around
Noun
▲
Mischievous play, especially by children
shenanigans
mischief
mischievousness
naughtiness
tomfoolery
misbehavior
US
misbehaviour
UK
frolicsomeness
playfulness
pranks
tricks
vandalism
capers
prank
gag
nonsense
trouble
horseplay
monkeyshines
trickery
antics
carry-on
hanky-panky
funny business
joking around
larking about
to-do
monkey business
high jinks
dirty trick
fooling around
horsing around
buffoonery
clowning
skylarking
foolery
hijinks
roughhousing
clownery
monkeying
roughhouse
slapstick
larks
silliness
foolishness
fun
fooling
folly
idiocy
childishness
harlequinade
joking
capering
ridiculousness
ludicrousness
stupidity
irresponsibility
lunacy
madness
giddiness
absurdity
craziness
bunk
senselessness
monkey tricks
carrying-on
messing around
larking around
kidding around
playing around
roguery
knavery
practical jokes
antic
caper
jokes
gags
frolic
waggery
trick
frolics
escapade
game
stunt
lark
stunts
escapades
joke
jesting
jests
practical joke
dido
jape
rowdiness
shines
rib
shenanigan
drollery
jest
didoes
ribs
rag
levity
capriccio
japes
didos
rags
capriccios
amusement
shavie
fun and games
waggishness
leg-pull
put-on
clownings
put-ons
wind-ups
leg-pulls
gambol
devilry
whim
rollick
foolish behavior
US
sport
play
hoaxes
foolish behaviour
UK
romps
carryings-on
drollness
zaniness
wind-up
merriment
flightiness
witticism
gaiety
wisecracking
comicalness
buffooneries
whimsicality
frivolity
joyfulness
banter
clownishness
malarkey
fling
boisterousness
light-heartedness
romp
espieglerie
cutups
quizzes
gambols
hoax
skylark
rough-and-tumble
laugh
quiz
silly behavior
US
goak
cutup
caprice
silly behaviour
UK
fooling about
mischievous act
piece of mischief
mischievous trick
desipience
fools' errands
monkeyshine
high spirits
romping
exuberance
revel
nonsensicalness
wackiness
nuttiness
caprices
foolings
stupid act
put on
dirty tricks
badness
diablerie
misdemeanour
UK
misconduct
perversity
fatuousness
deviltry
dottiness
rough and tumble
rough-housing
rough play
dippiness
misdemeanor
US
spoofs
cantrips
snow jobs
act
gambades
hoodwinkings
funny stuff
bad behaviour
bit of mischief
piece of fun
humour
UK
goofiness
humor
US
facetiousness
ludicrosity
flippancy
jiggery-pokery
jocularity
frivolousness
lightheartedness
goings-on
fool's errand
risibility
jocoseness
humorousness
jocosity
mirth
farcicalness
farcicality
funniness
jokiness
mirthfulness
uproariousness
comicality
whimsy
doltishness
cloddishness
foppery
illegal activities
irregular activities
adventure
exploit
spoof
event
incident
giggles
flings
exploits
sprees
revels
merrymaking
skylarks
laughs
experience
occurrence
episode
gambade
venture
happening
bizarreness
gambado
feat
lightness
freak
fancy
rig
prat
hotfoot
shine
deed
affair
giggle
raillery
moronity
badinage
wildness
crack
mission
trial
spree
amusing time
scrape
jaunt
vagary
harlequinades
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