<span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> (third-person singular simple present <span class="searchmatch">messes</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>, present participle <span class="searchmatch">messing</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">messed</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>) (intransitive)...
<span class="searchmatch">messing</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">messed</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">messes</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>...
footling about, simple past and past participle footled about) To pass time doing unimportant things; to <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around. footle around <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>...
idiomatic) To joke or play. (vulgar, idiomatic) To misbehave; to act foolishly. fuck <span class="searchmatch">about</span> fuck around <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around piss around subtopias...
and too young to <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around (slang, African-American Vernacular, dated) To dance. (all senses): <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> (fiddle idly): faff <span class="searchmatch">about</span> (British, idiomatic)...
<span class="searchmatch">messer</span>-<span class="searchmatch">abouters</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">messer</span>-<span class="searchmatch">abouter</span>...
footling around, simple past and past participle footled around) To pass time doing unimportant things; to <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around. footle <span class="searchmatch">about</span> <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span>...
from "<span class="searchmatch">mess</span>" (etymology 1) don't <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> with success hot <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> in a <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> <span class="searchmatch">about</span> <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> around <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> of greens <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> over <span class="searchmatch">mess</span>-up <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> up <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> with <span class="searchmatch">mess</span> with...