FALTER, FALTERING, FALTERINGLY
ADVERBS
1400 ► WANDSOMELY reluctantly, falteringly → obs.
NOUNS
1710 ► TITUBATION faltering, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment
VERBS
1400 ► STOTAY to falter, totter, stumble, stagger; to come to a stand → obs.
1623 ► TITUBATE to stammer, to falter in speaking → rare
1627 ► FRIBBLE to falter, to stammer → obs.
1790 ► HAFFLE to hesitate; to speak confusedly; to falter; to stammer; to prevaricate, to quibble → Eng. dial.
1905 ► HAFFLE-CAFFLE to falter, to vacillate, to act with indecision → Eng. dial. (Bk.)