Reverse Dictionary: INDECISION

ADJECTIVES
► HAFFLING hesitating, indecisive; prevaricating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAFFLY hesitating, indecisive; prevaricating → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LIKE A BUTTERLY IN HEAT behaving in a dithering manner; indecisive → 1975 US sl., esp. homosexual usage
► OFF AND ON indecisive, wavering, vacillating → 1859 sl.
► WAFFLING indecisive, hesitating, vacillating, shilly-shallying → 1847 Sc.& Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► HAIVER a state of fussy indecision; generally in plural → 1866 Sc.
► IFFING AND OFFING ► IFING AND OFFING indecision → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SWITHER perplexity, indecision, hesitation; doubt, uncertainty → 1719 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TANGLENESS indecision; fluctuation; pliability of opinion → 1819 Sc. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► FAD a fussy, over-particular person; a milksop, an indecisive, cowardly person → 1877 Eng. dial.
► FLIP-FLOP an indecisive person → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HAIVER a fussy, indecisive person; an idler who makes a pretense of work; a lazy, idle fellow → 1866 Sc.
► HAMLET a troubled, indecisive, or capricious person; an introspective, philosophical man of dreams rather than of action → 1903
► HAVERER a vacillating or indecisive person → 1947 chiefly Brit.
► WAFFLER a weak, indecisive, vacillating person; one who hesitates; a ditherer; a laggard → 1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.

VERBS
► BALLOCKS ABOUT ► BALLOCKS AROUND to infuriate, to waste someone’s time, to be indecisive → 1950s sl.
► FAFF ► FAFF ABOUT  to waste time on matters of no importance; to be indecisive or fussy → 1874 UK sl.
► FANNY ABOUT to be indecisive or fussy; to waste time; to act aimlessly → 1970s sl.
► GALAY to hesitate, to speak or act indecisively → 20C W. Indies sl.
► HEE-HAW to mutter, to mumble, to be indecisive → L15 sl.
► HEM AND HAW to mutter, to mumble, to be indecisive → L15 sl.
► HEM-HAW ► HEM-HAW AROUND to speak hesitatingly; to avoid giving a clear answer; to be indecisive → 1954 Amer. dial.
► HUM AND HAW to speak hesitatingly; to stammer; to mutter, to mumble, to be indecisive → 1632
► MOUSE AROUND to be indecisive → 1969 Amer. dial.