Tarting about


messing about, fumbling, mucking about: particularly used in the north of england in a derogatory way, to describe some action the speaker believes is not being done properly, or is being done to slowly and inefficiently.
kevin, stop tarting about and give me that spanner, you kn-b head. i’ll show you how it’s done!

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