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farnarkle 

Australian, verb: to waste time; to spend time in unnecessary and/or unproductive activities; to muck around; to faff about.

Derived from the late great comedian John Clarke's commentary on the obscure but magnificent (and totally nonexistent) sport of farnarkeling.
The leadership team as usual just farnarkled about for the whole strategic retreat, all they produced were some hangovers and a few irrelevant flip charts covered with sticky notes.

All you ever do is farnarkle. Will you just bloody well finish the dishes?

"In essence, Farnarkeling is engaged in by two teams whose purpose is to arkle, and to prevent the other team from arkeling, using a flukem to propel a gonad through sets of posts situated at random around the periphery of a grommet."
farnarkle by anonymous September 15, 2020
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farnarkle 

A whole bunch of fucked up shit n stuff.
Well isnt this some farnarkle. Bullshit.
farnarkle by koRky482 January 31, 2018

farnarkeling 

Fictitious sport invented by New Zealand/Aussie genius John Clarke, in his persona of NZ sheep farmer Fred Dagg.
To quote his website "In essence, Farnarkeling is engaged in by two teams whose purpose is to arkle, and to prevent the other team from arkeling, using a flukem to propel a gonad through sets of posts situated at random around the periphery of a grommet. Arkeling is not permissible, however, from any position adjacent to the phlange (or leiderkrantz) or from within 15 yards of the wiffenwacker at the point where the shifting tube abuts the centre-line on either side of the 34 metre mark, measured from the valve at the back of the defending side's transom-housing."
farnarkeling by Ossminid October 25, 2007

farnarter 

a large person wanting to be a ninja, but knows not what a ninja wears or does
the farnarter is clueless
farnarter by anonomus January 2, 2005

farnarkling 

the group activity whereby everyone sits around discussing the need to "do something" but nothing actually happens
I'm not going to sit around farnarkling all afternoon, I'm off to get something to eat
farnarkling by MF.Aurelius February 23, 2006
To muck around, mess around, pay little attention to rules/regulations
"Hey, you, stop farnarcling around"
farnarcle by Anonymous August 8, 2003
A pub game played in the area of South Yorkshire, England
A Farnarcle challenge was set up in the Butchers Arms, Monk Bretton, to establish the local area champion
farnarcle by Anonymous October 6, 2003