putz around

present singular third person putzes around · participle present putzing around · participle past putzed around · past putzed around

1. intransitiveslangTo waste time.

   Just shut up and get in the truck! You putz around worse than a ninety-year-old woman!

   2002, Edward Lee, chapter 8, in Monstrosity, Abingdon, Md.: Cemetery Dance Publications, →ISBN, section II, page 181

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   “She used to be in her garden all the time,” [Barbara] Szczecina said. “They were always together, putzing around outside.”

   2015 April 7, Kashmira Gander, “Michael Juskin: 100-year-old man ‘kills wife with axe in murder-suicide attack’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2015

   “I was thinking, this will be a nice, quiet week to myself,” Mr. [William Howard] Critzman said. “I’ll can tomatoes and read and putz around.”

   2019 September 7, Tammy La Gorce, “Two ‘Nice, Quiet’ Vacations Upended by the Dogs”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2019