mess around
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| Verb | 1. |  mess around - do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house"puddle - mess around, as in a liquid or paste; "The children are having fun puddling in paint" work - exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" |
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mess
noun1. A group of things gathered haphazardly:
2. A lack of order or regular arrangement:
chaos, clutter, confusedness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderedness, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mix-up, muddle, muss, scramble, topsy-turviness, tumble.
Slang: snafu.
3. A ruinous state of disorder:
Informal: hash.
4. An unsightly object:
1. To handle something idly, ignorantly, or destructively:
Informal: monkey.
mess around
1. Informal. To waste time by engaging in aimless activity:
Informal: fool around.
3. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another:
mess up
1. To harm irreparably through inept handling; make a mess:
ball up, blunder, boggle, botch, bungle, foul up, fumble, gum up, mishandle, mismanage, muddle, muff, spoil.
Idiom: make a muck of.
2. To put into total disorder:
Slang: snafu.
Idiom: play havoc with.
3. To put out of proper order:
4. Slang. To be rough or brutal with:
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Translations
blbnout
gå og rode
vetelehtiä
faire n’importe quoi
tratiti vrijeme
無為に過ごす
빈둥대다
spela pajas
ฆ่าเวลาโดยการทำอะไรที่ไม่สำคัญ
làm việc tào lao
mess around
→ يَعْبَثُ blbnout gå og rode herumgammeln περιφέρομαι enredar, pasar el rato vetelehtiä faire n’importe quoi tratiti vrijeme perdere tempo 無為に過ごす 빈둥대다 prutsen rote rundt nic konkretnego nie robić embromar, não fazer nada валять дурака spela pajas ฆ่าเวลาโดยการทำอะไรที่ไม่สำคัญ oyalanmak làm việc tào lao 混日子Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009