faff about

To waste time or procrastinate by doing something unproductive or unhelpful; to fool around or spend time idly. Primarily heard in UK. Would you quit faffing about and give me a hand cleaning the house? I should have started this essay last week, but I've been faffing about with my new video game console.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kunigonde	-	Dutch
Perceval	-	Arthurian Romance
Francine	frawn-SEEN (French), fran-SEEN (English)	French, English
Midge	MIJ	English (Rare)
Rudolf	ROO-dawlf (German), RUW-dawlf (Polish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Russian, Arm
Maurycy	mow-RI-tsi	Polish