Illustration: During classroom cleanup at a Japanese primary school, one child has stopped wiping desks and holds two clean feather dusters beside their cheeks like enormous whiskers. They crouch in an exaggerated cat pose, deliberately making a nearby classmate laugh.

ふざける

fuzakeru

to fool around

Example sentences

もうやめなさい。今日きょうはやけにふざけているんだから。
Stop it. You’re being ridiculous.
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わたしたちは、さんざんふざけていたから、そろそろ仕事しごとにとりかかる時ときだ。
We’ve been horsing around too much; it’s high time we got down to brass tacks.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
今日きょうはふざけてばかりいるんだから。
You are being ridiculous today.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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