puttering
coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, fiddling, flirtation, fooling, fooling around, idling, jerking off, kidding around, loitering, messing around, monkeying, monkeying around,
bobby - bluebottle, bull, constable, cop, copper, dick, flatfoot, gendarme, gum shoe, officer, paddy, peeler, pig, the cops, the fuzz,
admittedly - doubtless, doubtlessly, indubitably, no doubt, undeniably, undoubtedly, without doubt ,
wilful disobedience - infraction, insubordination, lawbreaking, lawlessness, non-compliance, nonconformity, passive resistance, transgression, violation ,
water flow - affluence, concourse, confluence, course, crosscurrent, current, downpour, drift, flow, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, onrush, outflow,
spiralling - ascendant, ascending, circling, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumlocution, circumnavigation, climbing, cut-throat, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness,
quips and cranks - aphorism, conceit, crack, epigram, gibe, nasty crack, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, scintillation, wisecrack,
liberation - abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement,
dancing girl - artist, ballerina, belly dancer, chorus girl, conjurer, dancer, geisha, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, performer, prestidigitator,
ghost-haunted - haunted, obsessed, possessed, spooky ,
go before - announce, antedate, anticipate, be before, be early, be the bellwether, beacon, blaze the trail, break the trail, come before, come first, foresee, forestall, foretaste, front,
admittedly - doubtless, doubtlessly, indubitably, no doubt, undeniably, undoubtedly, without doubt ,
wilful disobedience - infraction, insubordination, lawbreaking, lawlessness, non-compliance, nonconformity, passive resistance, transgression, violation ,
water flow - affluence, concourse, confluence, course, crosscurrent, current, downpour, drift, flow, fluency, flux, gush, inflow, onrush, outflow,
spiralling - ascendant, ascending, circling, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumlocution, circumnavigation, climbing, cut-throat, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness,
quips and cranks - aphorism, conceit, crack, epigram, gibe, nasty crack, persiflage, pleasantry, quip, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, scintillation, wisecrack,
liberation - abstraction, annexation, appropriation, boosting, break, breakout, broad-mindedness, conversion, conveyance, deliverance, delivery, emancipation, embezzlement, emergence, enfranchisement,
dancing girl - artist, ballerina, belly dancer, chorus girl, conjurer, dancer, geisha, hoofer, impersonator, magician, mountebank, mummer, musician, performer, prestidigitator,
ghost-haunted - haunted, obsessed, possessed, spooky ,
go before - announce, antedate, anticipate, be before, be early, be the bellwether, beacon, blaze the trail, break the trail, come before, come first, foresee, forestall, foretaste, front,