What is "arsing"

Usage examples of "arsing".

Just don’t” yelled Isaac at everyone in the staring crowd, “be arsing around with ideas of muggery and thievery.

Just don’t” yelled Isaac at everyone in the staring crowd, “ be arsing around with ideas of muggery and thievery.

He and Stephen often sat together, hearing one another their Malay verbs or rehearsing his address to the Sultan of Kampong.

No, no: you don’t want to go arsing around with the old ways: the French did so, and look at the scrape it has gotten them into.

Aubrey, instead of arsing about like a jack-in-the-box, just you run down to Ethalion and tell him to mend his pace.

No, no: you don't want to go arsing around with the old ways: the French did so, and look at the scrape it has gotten them into.

But Keith was hungry, and he was even more appalled by his clothes, grubby little items that he knew he was too fat for, than he was appalled by the risk of being found short-arsing round the house without his high-heeled boots on.

As he told long, unfunny jokes, thrummed on the piano, and danced with wonky corpulence, he had become aware that his audience was by no means a captive one, and so began to simulate an even more toe-curling pathos, recounting his long history of failure, telling of previous flops with a forgiving smile, simpering into the microphone about his obesity, lack of rehearsing time, alcoholism, etc.

Totally exceedingyour remit, interfering with police business, getting yourface in the papers, arsing about like an idiot in the middleof the Festival parade, for Christ's sake!