fart-arse

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fart-arse (plural fart-arses)

1. (British, slang, derogatory) Term of abuse.

fart-arse (third-person singular simple present fart-arses, present participle fart-arsing, simple past and past participle fart-arsed)

1. (British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To waste time or opportunities; to dawdle.
   • 2008, Tom Holt, Falling Sideways, Orbit books, →ISBN, page 24:

     No good fartarsing about, […]

   • 2009 May 29, David Campese, “Terry Campese's made it on own merits”, in Herald Sun:

     For the last couple of years, the coaches at the Raiders have never given him much of a chance. They've been fart-arsing him around.

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