time-filler
noun
1 Depreciative = time-server (now rare ).
2A means of occupying oneself, especially with an undemanding or trivial activity; something which fills the time but is of little intrinsic value.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Boston Globe.
- Swiss shower
- switch
- switchable
- switchback
- switchblade
- switchboard
- Switch card
- switched-on
- switcher
- switcheroo
- switchgear
- switchgrass
- switch-hitter
- switch-hitting
- switchman
- switch off
- switchover
- switch plate
- switch selling
- switch something off (or on)
- switchyard
- swither
- Swithin, St
- Swithun
- Switzerland