Crossword clues for futz
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
futz \futz\ v. i. To fool around; to act without plan or purpose; -- usually used with around; as, don't futz around with a device without understanding its operation. [Slang.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"loaf, waste time," 1932, American English, perhaps from Yiddish. Related: Futzed; futzing.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context vulgar colloquial dialectal English) Female genitalia, especially the vagina 2 (context vulgar colloquial dialectal derogatory English) An objectionable woman vb. 1 To be frivolous and waste time (from the 20th c.) 2 To experiment by trial and error
Wikipedia
Futz or Futz! may refer to:
- Futz, a play by Rochelle Owens
- Futz, a 1969 film by Tom O'Horgan based on the play
- Captain Marion Futz, a fictional character in Simian Undercover Detective Squad
- Futz!, a 2007 animated series
Usage examples of "futz".
Incandenza standing there waiting for Ortho Stice to finish futzing with his socks so he can serve.
Pemulis is looking oddly sanguine and confident after a couple minutes futzing with the cans of water, rinsing out the oral cavity and so on.
LSD, as a relatively ephebic and clueless organic chemist, while futzing around with ergotic fungi on rye.
Here he summoned me up, but in futzing up that ancient spell -- and granted, reciting Latin backward can be tricky-- by futzing up that one word, he blew the whole deal.
Before going back to the baseline and warming up groundstrokes Schacht likes to take a little time courtside futzing around, hitting his heads' frames against strings and listening for the pitch of best tension, arranging his towel on the back of his chair, making sure his cards aren't still flipped from some previous match, etc.