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twiddling one's thumbsphrasepresent participle of twiddle one's thumbs to spend time doing nothingHe twiddled his thumbs in the waiting room before his name was called. bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about(British), hanging (around or out), idling, kicking around, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflingdozing, estivating(also aestivating), hibernatinglagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarryingambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanningfurloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting killing time drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, workingapplying, buckling (down)exerting, putting out |