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Verb
Present participle for to behave in a foolish or comical manner
Present participle for to toy with
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
Present participle for to be engaged in a love affair, typically one of which the speaker disapproves
Present participle for to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner
Present participle for to interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations
To waver between different courses of action
Present participle for to waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully
Noun
Foolish or silly behaviour
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Verb
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Present participle for to behave in a foolish or comical manner
joking
clowning
jesting
fooling around
clowning around
horsing around
larking about
playing the fool
playing for laughs
messing around
acting the goat
mucking about
fooling about
mucking around
acting the fool
acting the clown
footling about
footling around
acting the jennet
acting the maggot
monkeying around
playing the giddy goat
acting foolishly
clowning about
larking around
playing the goat
cutting up
horsing about
monkeying about
indulging in horseplay
misbehaving
acting up
causing trouble
getting up to mischief
playing up
carrying on
larking
getting up to no good
playing around
puddling around
fannying about
puddling about
footling
lollygagging
showboating
fiddling around
misconducting oneself
playing about
playing tricks
kidding around
fiddling about
acting crazy
hotdogging
skylarking
joking around
forgetting oneself
giving someone trouble
engaging in high jinks
showing off
having fun
acting the giddy goat
goofing around
futzing
idling
making mischief
behaving badly
creating
causing a commotion
causing a fuss
messing
mucking
fiddling
pottering about
pottering
puddling
piddling around
tinkering
piddling about
fribbling
pottering around
piddling
amusing oneself
doing nothing much
frittering
losing it
playing pranks
screwing around
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to toy with
trifling with
dallying with
flirting with
playing with
toying with
treating casually
treating frivolously
treating lightly
amusing oneself with
messing around
paltering with
sporting with
wantoning with
treating in a cavalier fashion
playing ducks and drakes with
playing fast and loose with
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make jokes, especially for purposes of teasing someone
fooling
jesting
joking
kidding
acting
faking
feigning
pretending
shamming
bantering
chaffing
funning
gagging
japing
jiving
jollying
joshing
messing
quipping
teasing
wisecracking
yucking
yukking
counterfeiting
clowning about
clowning around
playing tricks
messing around
playing the fool
putting on an act
having on
mucking around
mucking someone about
winding up
ribbing
deriding
taunting
mocking
razzing
rallying
frolicking
gambolling
UK
riding
ridiculing
hoaxing
roasting
gamboling
US
fooling around
fooling about
shucking
putting someone on
rotting someone
playing a prank
playing a trick
pulling one's leg
pulling someone's chain
playing a practical joke
playing a joke
pulling someone's leg
making a monkey out of
more ❯
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
playing
trifling
coquetting
monkeying around
fooling about
capering
frolicking
flirting
cavorting
romping
toying
larking
gambolling
UK
gamboling
US
sporting
skylarking
rollicking
having fun
womanizing
US
womanising
UK
frisking
doodling
disporting
fribbling
japing
sleeping around
making mischief
mucking about
puttering around
kicking around
larking around
hanging about
clowning about
disporting oneself
fiddling around
larking about
swinging
fooling
indulging in horseplay
playing the field
goofing around
pottering around
screwing around
clowning around
monkeying about
acting the fool
hanging around
fiddling about
having affairs
having affairs affair
wandering
straying
acting the goat
footling around
playing up
mucking around
fannying about
footling about
playing tricks
acting the giddy goat
fidgeting
twiddling
fidgetting
tricking
winding up
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
clowning
letting go
letting loose
idling away
making merry
having a good time
joking
cutting capers
diverting oneself
fiddling
occupying oneself
engaging in games
jesting
enjoying oneself
jumping
playing games
letting your hair down
amusing yourself
enjoying yourself
kidding
rejoicing
going on a spree
recreating
diverting
amusing oneself
cutting up
horsing around
kicking up one's heels
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner
tinkering
monkeying
playing
toying
dabbling
fiddling
fiddling with
meddling
playing with
pottering
trifling with
dallying with
toying with
adjusting slightly
dabbling with
doodling
fixing
interfering
interfering with
meddling with
mending
messing
mucking about
niggling
playing about with
playing around with
puddling
puttering
repairing
tampering
tampering with
trying to improve
trying to mend
working amateurishly on
fooling about with
fooling around with
pottering about with
fooling around
messing about with
messing around
messing around with
messing with
monkeying around
mucking about with
mucking around with
putting right
taking apart
tinkering at the edges of
tinkering with the edges of
playing around
rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic
bumbling
trifling
touching
feeling
handling
fooling
fingering
pawing
thumbing
twiddling
fussing
fooling about
picking at
tinkering with
monkeying with
fooling with
flirting
fidgetting with
fidgeting
fidgetting
experimenting
adjusting
moving
handling without permission
touching without permission
frivoling
frivolling
twiddling with
amusing oneself with
exposing yourself to
mucking around
dipping into
dabbling in
laying a finger on
flirting with
scratching the surface
playing games with
experimenting with
pottering around with
pottering round with
amusing oneself
tweaking
winking at
holding
disturbing
mauling
palpating
fiddling around with
fiddling about with
manhandling
messing up
laying a hand on
pottering about
working superficially
playing at
twirling
jiggling
swiveling
US
swivelling
UK
turning
wiggling
twisting
juggling
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to interfere with (something) in order to cause damage or make unauthorized alterations
tampering
interfering
meddling
tinkering
fiddling
altering
changing
dabbling
damaging
doctoring
monkeying around
toying
trifling
adjusting
defacing
harming
vandalising
UK
vandalizing
US
fiddling about
fiddling around
fooling about
fooling around
playing about
playing around
ruining
cooking
cutting
destroying
diversifying
fooling
interloping
interposing
intruding
irrigating
manipulating
messing around
mucking about
planting
spiking
varying
watering
doing damage to
doing mischief to
mucking around
butting in
fiddling with
fooling with
horning in
monkeying with
messing around with
poking one's nose into
playing
monkeying about
messing
monkeying
playing with
messing with
tampering with
tinkering with
meddling with
interfering with
fingering
trifling with
handling without permission
touching without permission
experimenting
mucking about with
mucking around with
jiggling
twirling
wiggling
moving
twisting
swiveling
US
swivelling
UK
turning
juggling
puttering
fidgeting
pottering
feeling
puddling
touching
doodling
handling
fidgetting
intervening
intermeddling
twiddling
encroaching on
throwing a spanner in the works
throwing a monkey wrench in the works of
poking your nose in
sticking your oar in
fidgetting with
toying with
more ❯
Verb
▲
To waver between different courses of action
faffing about
hesitating
wavering
vacillating
shilly-shallying
faffing around
faltering
teetering
havering
procrastinating
swithering
dallying
fluctuating
dawdling
oscillating
delaying
wobbling
temporizing
US
stalling
staggering
scrupling
hanging back
balancing
halting
wabbling
sitting on the fence
pussyfooting around
humming and hawing
dithering
dilly-dallying
blowing hot and cold
wasting time
temporising
UK
Verb
▲
Present participle for to waste or spend time idly and unfruitfully
footling
lounging
lazing
loafing
idling
lolling
dawdling
dallying
lazying
bumming
chilling
chillin
dillydallying
droning
pottering
futzing
hanging about
kicking around
goofing off
kicking back
vegging out
hacking around
hanging around
hanging out
fiddling around
messing around
fooling around
Noun
▲
Foolish or silly behaviour
tomfoolery
clowning
shenanigans
buffoonery
foolishness
horseplay
silliness
foolery
skylarking
antics
pranks
stupidity
capering
capers
fooling
larks
mischief
nonsense
tricks
clownery
hijinks
idiocy
monkeying
monkeyshines
roughhouse
roughhousing
slapstick
childishness
harlequinade
messing around
absurdity
bunk
carrying-on
craziness
folly
fun
giddiness
high jinks
horsing around
insanity
irresponsibility
joking
larking about
larking around
ludicrousness
lunacy
madness
monkey business
ridiculousness
senselessness
monkey tricks
fooling around
funny business
kidding around
playing around
mischievousness
naughtiness
misbehavior
US
misbehaviour
UK
frolicsomeness
playfulness
vandalism
prank
gag
trouble
trickery
carry-on
hanky-panky
to-do
joking around
dirty trick
practical jokes
gags
jokes
frolics
knavery
roguery
stunts
escapades
jests
carryings-on
misconduct
ribs
didos
waggery
rags
japes
capriccios
jiggery-pokery
game
goings-on
chicanery
dishonesty
didoes
skulduggery
put-ons
wind-ups
leg-pulls
romps
foolish behaviour
UK
foolish behavior
US
fun and games
hoaxes
deception
machinations
subterfuge
deceit
jesting
rowdiness
intrigue
devilry
cutups
clownings
quizzes
gambols
misdemeanour
UK
misdemeanor
US
silly behaviour
UK
silly behavior
US
play
fools' errands
espieglerie
hoaxing
malarkey
desipience
monkeyshine
romping
rough-and-tumble
escapade
frolic
caper
stunt
antic
harlequinades
stupid act
dirty tricks
practical joke
no good
exuberance
boisterousness
rough-housing
rough and tumble
foolings
levity
buffooneries
whim
caprices
rough play
skullduggery
wile
artifice
legerdemain
jugglery
badness
chicane
fourberie
gamesmanship
diablerie
perversity
fraud
deviltry
spoofs
cantrips
snow jobs
act
hoodwinkings
gambades
bad behaviour
double-dealing
hankie-pankie
sharp practice
dirty pool
hokey-pokey
joviality
gaiety
giggles
exploits
sprees
revels
merriment
merrymaking
flings
skylarks
amusement
laughs
drollery
sport
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