Meaning of fanny about | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To waste time or fool around; to engage in activity which produces little or no accomplishment.
   British, intransitive, slang
2. To wander about or prowl around.
   British, intransitive, slang, transitive

Examples

“Then he dithered and fannied about.”

“Johnson waited for an age while the barmen tossed bottles back and forth, poured luminous liquids into glasses from great heights, and fannied about with fruit and frivolities.”

“Obviously, I smirk watching this chaos unfold, from my lofty moral vantage as a woman checking Twitter dozens of times a day, a woman who often presents her husband with meals consisting of fridge remnants as I'm too busy fannying about on the internet to cook or shop.”

“... the mechanic who tidied up after the Krays, took care of business while the Twins were fannying around the clubland circuit.”

“Out of all the random cities one gets to fanny about in Europe, all my flings are descending onto Luxembourg like a plague of horny man-teens.”

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