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pottering puttering touhuta turhia be busy about nothing
touhu bustle, bustling: (puuha) fuss, ado; (kilre) flurry, hurry; (tyhjänpäivainen) pottering, (jkpv.) puttering; (häärintä) stir; minulla on ollut niin poljon touhua, että . . I have been so busy that ..; olla touhussa(an) be busy, bustle around, (jkpv.) be husting, hustle...
touhuta turhia exert o.s. needlelessly, be busy about nothing, (jkpv.) putter (around).
Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja, toimittanut Severi Alanne
Finnish-English Dictionary, compiled by Severi Alanne (Superior, Wis., 1919) : 770-771
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rather more potterings —
askare
askaroiminen busying (o.s.), pottering
mitä sinä askartelet / What are you busing yourself with? what’s that you are pottering with?
p 33
naperrella (näperrellä) nibble; (askarella) potter (about), busy o.s., be busy [with, jotakin]; tinker. napertellja nibbler; potterer, busybody; tinkerer. napertelu nibbling; pottering (about); tinkering.
p 425
pikku- (yhd.) little, small...
-toimet petty (l. pottering) jobs.
p 516
Vieno Severin “Deveri” Alanne (1879-1960), chemical engineer, lexicographer, socialist journalist, consumers’ co-operative organizer
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