"futz around" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "futzes around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "futzing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "futzed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "futzed around",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker."
      ],
      "id": "en-futz_around-en-verb-pWeS7i48",
      "links": [
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "busy oneself",
          "busy oneself"
        ],
        [
          "experiment",
          "experiment"
        ],
        [
          "tinker",
          "tinker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern US, slang) To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker."
      ],
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        "Northern-US",
        "slang"
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          ],
          "ref": "1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:",
          "text": "I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mess or interfere with."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern US, slang) To mess or interfere with."
      ],
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        "Northern-US",
        "slang"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "futz around"
}

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    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "futzes around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "futzing around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "futzed around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "futzed around",
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        "past"
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English slang",
        "Northern US English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ],
        [
          "busy oneself",
          "busy oneself"
        ],
        [
          "experiment",
          "experiment"
        ],
        [
          "tinker",
          "tinker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Northern US, slang) To waste time frivolously or busy oneself with minor tasks; to experiment or tinker."
      ],
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        "Northern-US",
        "slang"
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          "ref": "1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint:",
          "text": "I am nobody to futz around with when I know myself to be four hundred per cent in the right.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mess or interfere with."
      ],
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        "(Northern US, slang) To mess or interfere with."
      ],
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        "slang"
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  "word": "futz around"
}