Wasting time, doing nothing in particular. Also, can mean finding idle tasks to do while wasting time.

Comparable to dilly-dallying.
> I'm just faffing about until lunch time.
> _or_
> - What are you doing there, working?
> - Nah, I'm just faffing about.

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accusar
allwhite
anagalline
apodematal
art-object
astronomical observation
auctioned
auxiliary utility model
barbecue stopper
bergapten
best evidence rule
blowcock
blue flag
blut
buckets
chooser
cleavest
closed fire-season
complex analytic integral
Confidence indicator
coprecipitater
Dalmane
data conversion check
density of occupation
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Dicypelliu caryophyllatum
does it
down-trodden
durbin
El Milagro de Guadalupe
electric fields
emvryulcus
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Flexura duodeni superior
forest denudation
freedom ride
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gettin' wet
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hold button
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interlocking circuit
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lipograulomatosis
little boy blue
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sculpt
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semistationary process
Sepaton
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spiraprilat
stomach flu
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sun-tzu
TCP/IP
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the perpendicular
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undercut atomizer
undersea nuclear power plant
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unwatching
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video delta modulation system
voluntary societies
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