mope
moon around
moon about

It's about time you quit mooning about and took a woman!

I should have known when I left for the summer that you were mooning about in the throes of love!

He really must stop this mooning about and get on with the job, or he'd be sitting here for the next twelvemonth.

So that was why Carreen mooned about, praying all the time.

Instead of mooning about in that constipated way, you feel, he should pull himself together, and join the Navy.

One rainy morning Diana was mooning about, getting in her busy mother's way.

Well, I mooned about, as you might say.

"You think we have time to waste on your mooning about?"

"Take that trip south you keep mooning about," she said.

George stared balefully through the window at the young man mooning about, outside.