bugger about
Slangto waste time by behaving in a silly way or with no clear purpose; to treat sb in a way that is deliberately not helpful to them or wastes their time
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Meaning
- 1
bugger about / around
to waste time by behaving in a silly way or with no clear purpose
Stop buggering about and get back to work.
- 2
bugger sb about / around
to treat sb in a way that is deliberately not helpful to them or wastes their time
I'm sick of being buggered about by the company.
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Definitions from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 9th edition
He was prepared to make himself a right bugger about it.
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