Reverse Dictionary: EQUIVOCATE

ADJECTIVES
1600 ► PALTERING equivocation, shuffling, playing fast and loose; trifling with serious matters
1611 ► QUIDDITATIVE full of equivocations; quirky → obs.
1642 ► QUIDDATIVE full of equivocations, quirky
1825 ► PARAFLING wordy equivocation, time-wasting evasion; the making of an ostentatious fuss → Sc.
1883 ► PARRYING trifling, equivocation, evasion → Sc.

NOUNS
1975 ► HACKERING AND HAMMERING vacillating, equivocating → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1589 ► PALTERER → PALTRER an equivocator; a shuffler; one who plays fast and loose; a haggler, a huckster; one who acts evasively
1705 ► TOM DOUBLE a shuffler, an equivocator

VERBS
1601 ► PALTER to shift, to shuffle, to equivocate, to prevaricate in statement or dealing; to deal crookedly or evasively; to play fast and loose, to use trickery
1818 ► DACKER to remain or hang on in a state of irresolution; to vacillate, equivocate, waver → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1873 ► POLLYFOX to dilly-dally, to delay and discuss, to quibble or equivocate → Amer. dial.
1883 ► PARRY to trifle, to waste time, to dawdle or delay in order to avoid action, to equivocate → Sc.
1884 ► SCAFFLE to equivocate → Eng. dial.
1905 ► QUAVER to equivocate → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1914 ► PAVIE to talk in a guarded manner; to prevaricate, to equivocate; to hedge → Sc.
1970 ► POLLYFOX AROUND to equivocate, to quibble, to procrastinate; to waste time, to dilly-dally, to delay and discuss → Amer. dial.