arse about

Questions about arse about

What does arse about mean?

arse about means "be lazy or idle".

What is another word for arse about?

Close synonyms include bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, fuck off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arse about a common word?

arse about is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.