juguetear
have + sport with ; play about ; romp ; frolic ; play ; horse around/about ; dink around/about ; play around.
He said 'Can't they see I'm just having sport with them?', and then he smiled, just a quirk of the corners of his mouth.
Then, leaning back in her chair and with an impish smile playing about her mouth, she said: 'You know I can't quite get used to the idea of him giving up his job to follow his wife'.
The author recommends an approach to reading a poem that treats the poem as an expansive space in which to romp and play, to explore and travel.
A major problem, however, is the author's pervasive use of jargon and his failure to recognize how such language might distance the text from the filth in which it wants to frolic.
A man who witnesses said was intoxicated and playing with a handgun died last night after shooting himself in the head.
Angus has a lot of energy - he is always horsing around with his foster brothers and sister.
I have spent the last few days dinking around in the kitchen trying to come up with an economical, palatable and nutritious protein bar.
The two played around on the beach before getting changed into bathing costumes and going into the water.
juguetear con
twiddle
toy with
fidget with
fuss with
monkey around with
fool around with
monkey with
fiddle with
Meek took her glasses off and twiddled them as her supervisor related the following incident = Meek se quitó las gafas y las hacía girar al mismo tiempo que su supervisor le contaba el siguiente incidente.
The article is entitled 'Malays toying with Americans: the rare voices of Malay scribes in two Houghton Library manuscripts'.
Actually to do something about a young crackhead fidgeting with a gun takes more than high-flown language - it takes bravery.
Editors are a bridge between the abstract writer and the printer: on the one hand they fuss with the content and intellectual quality of the abstract, and on the other hand they prepare copy that conforms to the constraints of the publishing world.
He was always monkeying around with his dad's truck.
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health - drugs are death, in one form or another.
It's out fault for letting political parties monkey with education.
If she's constantly fiddling with her hair while she's talking to you, or even adjusting her clothes, she's trying to make sure she looks her best in front of you!.