FOOL AROUND

Meaning of FOOL AROUND in English

play, play around, goof off , horse around ; have sex with someone who is not your spouse, have an affair

We don't fool around in her class. She's very strict.

Rita asked Jon for a divorce. She knows he's been fooling around.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

FOOL AROUND — intransitive verb Date: 1837 to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously, to engage in casual sexual activity
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FOOL AROUND — engage in casual sexual activity; dally, idle, dawdle, tarry, loiter
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FOOL AROUND — Date: 1837 1. : to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously 2. : to engage in casual sexual activity
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FOOL AROUND — Function: intransitive verb Date: 1837 1 : to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously 2 : to engage in casual …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FOOL AROUND — chiefly N. Amer. engage in casual or extramarital sexual activity. → fool
Concise Oxford English vocab
FOOL AROUND — [fool around] vi (1837) 1: to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously 2: to engage in casual sexual activity
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FOOL AROUND — 1. ( BrE also ˌfool aˈbout ) to waste time instead of doing sth that you should be doing SYN …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FOOL AROUND — fool around ( also fool about British English ) phrasal verb ( see also ↑ fool ) 1 . to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FOOL AROUND — 1. If you fool around , you behave in a silly, dangerous, or irresponsible way. They were fooling around on …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FOOL AROUND — 1. If you ~, you behave in a silly, dangerous, or irresponsible way. They were fooling around on an Army …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FOOL AROUND — Synonyms and related words : antic, be foolish, be stupid, caper, caracole, carry on, cavort, clown, clown around, coquet, curvet, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FOOL AROUND — See: MESS AROUND.
Slang English vocab
FOOL AROUND — Function: verb Synonyms: PHILANDER , mess around, play (around), wolf, womanize
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FOOL AROUND — verb Synonyms: philander , mess around, play (around), wolf, womanize
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
FOOL AROUND — someone's been fooling around with the controls : FIDDLE, play (about/around), toy, trifle, meddle, tamper, interfere, monkey about/around; informal mess …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FOOL AROUND — v (sl) ласкать, заниматься петтингом
Dirty English-Russian vocab
FOOL AROUND — v. ( D ; intr. ) to ~ with (don't ~ with fire)
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
FOOL AROUND — See: MESS AROUND.
Словарь английских идиом
FOOL AROUND — spend time playing rather than working, waste time If he would spend less time fooling around he would be able …
English Idioms vocab
FOOL AROUND — 1) играть, забавляться (ведя себя безрассудно, глупо, с риском для жизни) Don't fool around/about with matches. ≈ Не играй со …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FOOL AROUND — phr v 1. = fool about 2. дразнить
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FOOL AROUND — 1) играть, забавляться (ведя себя безрассудно, глупо, с риском для жизни) Don't fool around/about with matches. — Не играй со …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
FOOL AROUND — phr v 1. = fool about 2. дразнить
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
FOOL AROUND — phr v 1. = fool about 2. дразнить
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FOOL AROUND — дурачиться, валять дурака, болтаться попусту, зря болтаться
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FOOL AROUND — дурачиться, валять дурака, болтаться попусту, зря болтаться
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
FOOL AROUND — = _ам. fool about
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
FOOL AROUND — = ам. fool about
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
FOOL AROUND — зря болтаться
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
FOOL AROUND — 1) играть, забавляться (ведя себя безрассудно, глупо, с риском для жизни) Don't fool around/about with matches. ≈ Не играй со …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
FOOL — I. ˈfül noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English fol, fool, from Old French fol, from Late Latin follis, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
AROUND — I. əˈrau̇nd adverb Etymology: Middle English, probably from a- (I) + round, n. 1. a. : in a circle or …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FOOL — fool 1 /foohl/ , n. 1. a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense. 2. a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
AROUND — /euh rownd"/ , adv. 1. in a circle, ring, or the like; so as to surround a person, group, thing, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FOOL — I. ˈfül noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French fol, from Late Latin follis, from Latin, bellows, bag; akin to Old …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
AROUND — I. ə-ˈrau̇nd adverb Etymology: Middle English, from a- (I) + round (II) Date: 14th century 1. a. : in a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FOOL — vt to infatuate; to make foolish. 2. fool ·noun one who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked …
Webster English vocab
AROUND — adv in a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. around ·prep on all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as …
Webster English vocab
FOOL — [fool] n [ME, fr. OF fol, fr. LL follis, fr. L, bellows, bag; akin to OHG bolla blister, balg bag--more …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
FOOL — also called Jester, a comic entertainer whose madness or imbecility, real or pretended, made him a source of amusement and …
Britannica English vocabulary
FOOL — / fuːl; NAmE / noun , verb , adjective ■ noun 1. [ C ] a person who you think …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AROUND — / əˈraʊnd; NAmE / adverb , preposition ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For the special uses of around in phrasal …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FOOL — I. fool 1 /fuːl/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: fol , from Latin …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
AROUND — a ‧ round S1 W1 /əˈraʊnd/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition 1 . surrounding or on all sides of something …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FOOL — n., v., & adj. --n. 1 a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a stupid person. 2 hist. a jester; …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
AROUND — adv. & prep. --adv. 1 on every side; all round; round about. 2 in various places; here and there; at …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FOOL — n., v., & adj. n. 1 a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a stupid person. 2 hist. a jester; …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
AROUND — adv. & prep. adv. 1 on every side; all round; round about. 2 in various places; here and there; at …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FOOL — 1. n., v., & adj. --n. 1. a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a stupid person. 2 hist. a …
Oxford English vocab
AROUND — adv. & prep. --adv. 1. on every side; all round; round about. 2 in various places; here and there; at …
Oxford English vocab
FOOL — ( fools, fooling, fooled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AROUND — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: 'Around' is an adverb and a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
AROUND — Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: 'Around' is an adverb and a …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FOOL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a complete fool/idiot etc ▪ Meg realized she’d been a complete fool. April fool …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
AROUND — adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bug is going around (= a lot of people have it ) ▪ A …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FOOL — Synonyms and related words : Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, ament, apish, asinine, ass, babe, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FOOL — n. Function: noun 1 a person lacking in judgment or prudence FF1C; stop acting like a fool FF1E; Synonyms: ass, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
AROUND — adv. all around around the clock bring around fool around hang around kick around mess around play around push around …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FOOL — I. noun 1. a person lacking in judgment or prudence stop acting like a fool Synonyms: ass, asshead, *damfool, donkey, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
AROUND — INDEX: 1. around someone or something 2. to be surrounded by something 3. to move into a position around someone …
Longman Activator English vocab
AROUND — See ↑ AROUND/ROUND 1,4 ◆◆◆ • ↑ ask around • ↑ be around • ↑ come around • ↑ come …
Longman Activator English vocab
FOOL — n. 25B6; noun you've acted like a complete fool : IDIOT, ass, halfwit, blockhead, dunce, dolt, dullard, simpleton, clod; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
AROUND — adv. 25B6; adverb there were houses scattered around : ON EVERY SIDE, on all sides, throughout, all over (the place), …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FOOL — n. 1 simpleton, ninny, ninny-hammer, nincompoop, ass, jackass, dunce, dolt, halfwit, numskull or numbskull, blockhead, bonehead, pinhead, silly, feather-brain, loon, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab

English Idioms vocabulary

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