Reverse Dictionary: VACILLATE

ADJECTIVES
1645 ► BRANLING wavering, vacillating, irresolute → obs.
L18.. ► WIGGLE-WAGGLE vacillating
19C.. ► WIDDERY-MINDED vacillating; changeable → Eng. dial.
1825 ► BINGLE-BANGLE fickle, vacillating, irresolute → Eng. dial.
1844 ► WHIFFLE-MINDED fickle; vacillating, undecided → Amer. dial.
1847 ► WAFFLING indecisive, hesitating, vacillating, shilly-shallying → Sc.& Eng. dial.
M19. ► OFF AND ON indecisive, wavering, vacillating → sl.
1875 ► TITTY TODDY vacillating, undecided; silly, fussy, crotchety → Eng. dial.
1890 ► WAFFLY hesitating, undecided, vacillating; weak → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1905 ► OFF NOR ON neither one thing nor another; uncertain, vacillating → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
1374 ► TITTERING hesitation, vacillation
1578 ► MAMMERY a state of doubt, hesitation, or perplexity; vacillation → obs.
1646 ► BRANLING a wavering; an instance of irresolution or vacillation → obs.
1668 ► VACILLANCY vacillation
1739 ► VARY a hesitation or vacillation → obs.
1975 ► HACKERING AND HAMMERING vacillating, equivocating → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1704 ► LIMBERHAM an irresolute or vacillating person
1818 ► WINDLE-STRAW a thin, unhealthy person; a vacillating fellow → Sc.
1819 ► WAFFLER a weak, indecisive, vacillating person; one who hesitates; a ditherer; a laggard → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1855 ► WAFFLES one who hesitates or vacillates; a trifling, undecided person; a loafer, an idle sauntering person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1889 ► WAFFLE-BAGS one who hesitates or vacillates; a weak, undecided person → Eng. dial.
1913 ► SQUASH a vacillating person → Amer. dial. (Bk.)

PHRASES
2006 ► FISH OR CUT BAIT stop vacillating and act on something; do something or get out of the way → US sl. (Bk.)

VERBS
1350 ► MAMMER to vacillate, to waver, to be undecided → Eng. dial.
1387 ► WAG to waver, to vacillate → obs.
1555 ► HANG IN THE WIND to be or remain in dubious suspense; to be doubtful, undecided; to be irresolute, to vacillate
1818 ► DACKER to remain or hang on in a state of irresolution; to vacillate, equivocate, waver → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1819 ► WAFFLE to waver, to be uncertain, undecided, or hesitant; to vacillate → Sc.& N. Eng. dial.
1820 ► BELLWAVER to fluctuate, to waver, to vacillate, to be inconstant → Sc.
1854 ► BACK AND FILL to vacillate or waver; to take too long about coming to a decision → Amer. dial.
1880 ► NIGNAY to trifle, to fuss about, to work without result; to hum and haw, to be undecided, to vacillate; to do what is useless; to show reluctance → Sc.
1890 ► WEEWAW to vacillate; to perplex, to distract → Amer. dial.
1905 ► HAFFLE-CAFFLE to falter, to vacillate, to act with indecision → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1970 ► BAFFLE AROUND to take too long about coming to a decision → Amer. dial.
1999 ► CHOP AND CHANGE to vacillate (Bk.)