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vb. (present participle of fart around English)
Usage examples of "farting around".
Fergus was getting the guy to send them, making dad think Rory was still alive, farting around all over the world.
None of them would know anything, but that wouldn't stop the Fourth Estate from doing their usual thorough job of misrepresentation, bias, groundless speculation and general farting around.
That means that while I was paying the Kelly Services people to do nothing, and sweating blood for fear that the GM rep would find out about it, you and your people were out here farting around with nonessentials!
And it had better be a lot more than you were just farting around on the surface up there.
I told him my impression was that Arnie was mostly farting around.
You know, said Clive, as he clung to the wheel, I much prefer this kind of job to all that farting around in the Corridors of Power.