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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: Probably from Yiddish arumfartzen 'to fart around'

futz

 verb
     
futz

futz around

phrasal verb
to waste time, especially by doing small, unimportant jobs slowly:
I spent the entire day just futzing around.
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