messing russian
возня́
fuss, bother, hassle, trouble
scuffling, romping, noise, racket
tinkering, fiddling, messing about
intrigues, machinations, petty scheming
ковыря́вшийся
picking, poking, prodding, delving
fiddling, messing around, puttering, procrastinating
возя́щийся
fussing, messing around, tinkering, pottering
вала́ндающийся
dawdling, dilly-dallying, messing around, hanging about
зага́живающий
soiling, fouling, polluting, messing up
изгаживающий
spoiling, defiling, polluting, messing up
изгаживавший
spoiling, defiling, messing up, dirtying
порта́чивший
bungling, botching, spoiling, messing up
ковыря́вший
picking, poking, prodding
fiddling with, tinkering with, messing with, digging (lightly)
Examples
Are you messing with me?
Are you messing with me?
Stop messing around with that.
Переста́нь занима́ться ерундо́й.
Stop messing around.
Мы весь день прокопались в саду без толку.
We spent the whole day messing about in the garden to no avail.
Мальчик, всклокочивавший себе причёску, спешил на урок.
The boy, who was messing up his hair, was hurrying to class.
Портачившие рабочие получили выговор.
The workers who had been messing things up received a reprimand.



















