fiddling with
Absently manipulating something
Fiddling with something means to handle or manipulate it, often in a nervous or aimless way: He was fiddling with his pen during the meeting.
- adjustingAltering to correct
- fine tuningPrecise incremental adjustment
- fidgetingRestless minor movements
- calibratingAdjusting for accuracy
- modifyingChanging partially
nervous habit · prodding · sketching · tweaking · debugging · hacking · tapping · button mashing · poking · handling · hands on · trial and error · prototyping · taking apart · dismantling · doodling · soldering · tinkering
purposefulness
fiddling withrepairing
Restoring broken items
fixing · executing · implementing · carrying out · completing
engagement level
fiddling withleaving alone
Ceasing to disturb
ignoring · hands off · letting be · abandoning · walking away from