futz

You have to futz with your data outside of the app first.

"I was far out in space, and my teachers were futzing around with one hundred miles up.

He's getting old and his sense of direction is futzed up."

Whatever your preferred method, you'd just like it to work without any futzing around, right?

"I think they might be futzing out on us and causing feedback throughout the system."

He also had to futz with the city computer.

The voice from the com was clear, if somewhat futzed by the small speaker.

There's a verb to describe these activities in the States: to futz.

A woman of about forty was futzing around with a rucksack.

She was futzing around in the kitchen, as usual.

If somebody knocks you off it could futz up this whole deal."

Other people can futz around with our stuff, but we should remain true to the original conception and then bring it up to today's style.

Windows - it's more like 2 or 3 days of futzing around before it's ready.

I like the shops, and if I want to kill an afternoon just futzing around, it's great.

I futzed around with some commands before I nailed it.

"All that mess around you is futzing your ponder."

"The colony moved into the Belt back in 2112, but for nearly a century they just futzed around getting nowhere.

Still, she keeps half her living room cleared, "so I can just futz around in there from time to time."

Especially when reporters come along who intend to futz up their business by doing video exposes."

As she passed the main waste-heat exchanger her implant started to futz.

"And recently, I just decided we should stop futzing around and get it back up where it belongs."

The deal was futzed up enough as it was, and it didn't make sense.

Bush administration officials are still futzing around with organizational charts and allowing turf battles to go on "as though nothing had happened," they write.

"My ear training came in a very organic way, just from futzing around, singing with my dad at the piano."