- Albanian: sjell (sq)
- Arabic:
- Gulf Arabic: قز (gazz)
- Bulgarian: безделнича (bg) (bezdelniča)
- Catalan: entretenir-se (ca), gallinejar (ca), ronsejar (ca)
- Cebuano: nagpainday-inday
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 咪咪摸摸 (mi1 mi1 mo2 mo2, mi1 mi1 mo2-1 mo2-1), 咪摸 (mi1 mo2, mi1 mo2-1)
- Hakka: 咪咪摸摸 (mi1 mi1 mo1 mo1), 咪摸 (mi1 mo1)
- Hokkien: 挨絲撓倚/挨丝挠倚 (oe-si-lǎ-óa) (Quanzhou)
- Mandarin: 蹭 (zh) (cèng), 麦 (zh), 夌 (zh) (líng), 磨蹭 (zh) (mócèng), 蘑菇 (zh) (mógu, mógū, móguo) (informal), 磨叽 (zh) (mòji) (regional, informal, derogatory), 夋 (zh) (qūn), 磨嘰/磨叽 (zh) (mòji)
- Czech: flákat se, poflakovat se
- Danish: dovne, snøle
- Dutch: dralen (nl), leuteren (nl), talmen (nl), klungelen (nl)
- East Central German: attln, attln (Erzgebirgisch), dalln (Erzgebirgisch), damprn (Erzgebirgisch), dauteln (Erzgebirgisch)
- Finnish: himmailla (fi) (slang), kuhnailla (fi), kuhnia (fi), kuhnustella, kupata (fi) (informal), kupeksia (fi), kuppailla (fi) (informal), nuhjata, vetelehtiä (fi), viipyä (fi), viivytellä (fi)
- French: flâner (fr), lambiner (fr), musarder (fr), pateter (fr) (Switzerland), traînailler (fr), traîner (fr)
- German: bummeln (de), klüngeln (de) (Western Germany), nölen (de) (Northern Germany, possibly dated), plempern (de), säumen (de), trödeln (de), Zeit totschlagen (informal)
- Haitian Creole: flannen, mize
- Hebrew: הִתְמַהְמֵהַּ (he) (hitmahméah)
- Hungarian: lebzsel (hu), pepecsel (hu), piszmog (hu), szöszmötöl (hu), tesz-vesz (hu), vacakol (hu)
- Icelandic: drolla (is)
- Interlingua: tardar
- Italian: bighellonare (it), gingillarsi, lellare, traccheggiàre (it)
- Jamaican Creole: lime
- Japanese: 油を売る (あぶらをうる, abura o uru) (idiomatic), ちんたらする (chintara suru), だらだらする (daradara suru), 道草する (みちくさする, michikusa suru)
- Latin: cūnctor
- Low German:
- German Low German: draueln
- Luxembourgish: driibsen (lb)
- Macedonian: ѕе́нѕа (dzéndza), одолговле́кува (odolgovlékuva), се вле́чка (se vléčka)
- Malagasy: mihebinkenina (mg)
- Maori: hāmure, whakatairuhi
- Northern Sami: heaibat
- Polish: bałamucić (pl) impf, zbałamucić (pl) pf, marudzić (pl), żmudzić (pl) impf (archaic), zmudzić (obsolete)
- Romanian: mocăi (ro), omorî timpul, tărăgăna (ro), trena (ro)
- Russian: безде́льничать (ru) (bezdélʹničatʹ), копа́ться (ru) (kopátʹsja) (informal), счита́ть га́лок (ru) impf (sčitátʹ gálok, literally “count the jackdaws”), топта́ться (ru) (toptátʹsja) (informal)
- Sami:
- Skolt Sami: äjjned
- Scots: daver, haiver, trottle
- Swedish: slå dank (sv)
- Tamil: நடமாடு (ta) (naṭamāṭu)
- Thai: ลีลา (lii-laa) (humorous, slang), อู้ (th) (ûu)
- Turkish: oyalanmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: ба́братися (uk) impf (bábratysja) (figuratively)
- Vietnamese: chờn vờn (vi), la cà (vi)
- Welsh: hoetian
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