Reverse Dictionary: WAVER

ADJECTIVES
► ALL IN THE WIND wavering, uncertain → World War II Amer. sl.
► AVOIRDUPOIS undecided; in doubt, wavering in one’s mind → 1875 Eng. dial.
► BRANLING wavering, vacillating, irresolute → c1645 obs.
► DOUBLE-MINDED wavering or undecided in mind → 1545
► EYVY-KEYVY ► HAVEY-CAVEY ► HEAVY-CEAVY ► HEIGHVY-KEIGHVY ► HEIVY-KEIVY unsteady, trembling in the balance; uncertain, undetermined, doubtful, wavering, precarious → 1874 Eng. dial.
► HAIFTY-KAIFTY ► HEFTY-KEFTY wavering, undecided → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HANGER one who hesitates or wavers → 1536 obs.
► HAVERDEPAISE undecided; in doubt, wavering in one’s mind → 1875 Eng. dial.
► IZEY-TIZEY uncertain, wavering, undecided → 19C Eng. dial.
► LABANT sliding, falling down, wavering → 1727 obs.
► LUBRIC slippery, shifty, deceitful; wavering, unsteady, uncertain; prone to danger or error → 1631 obs.
► MEEDLESS undecided, wavering, unable to make up one’s mind; heedless, without thought or plan → 1703 Eng. dial.
► OFF AND ON indecisive, wavering, vacillating → M19 sl.
► SWIMMING wavering, unsteady → 1596 obs.
► TITUBANT uncertain, doubting, hesitating, wavering → 1880
► TWOFOLD double-minded; wavering → c1175 obs.
► VACILLANT uncertain, hesitating, wavering → 1521
► WANKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering; also, weak in health, delicate, sickly → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YEA-NAY wavering, undecided; feeble in character → 1902 Eng. dial.

ADVERBS
► TITTER-TOTTER hesitatingly, waveringly → 1725

NOUNS
► BALANCE subjective uncertainty; hesitation, wavering, doubt → 1297 obs.
► BRANLING a wavering; an instance of irresolution or vacillation → 1646 obs.
► VACILLANCY vacillation → 1668

NOUNS – PERSON
► HALTER one who wavers; a waverer → c1611
► VACILLATOR one who vacillates or wavers; an irresolute person → 1890
► WABBLER a waverer, shuffler → 1904 sl. (Bk.)
► WAFFLER an unsteady person; one not to be depended on; a waverer → 1889 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► BACK AND FILL to vacillate or waver; to take too long about coming to a decision → 1854 Amer. dial.
► BAFFLE AROUND to take too long about coming to a decision → 1970 Amer. dial.
► BALANCE to waver, to deliberate, to hesitate → 1655
► BELLWAVER to fluctuate, to waver, to vacillate, to be inconstant → 1820 Sc.
► BOGGLE to hesitate, as if afraid to proceed; to waver → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CAIVER to waver in mind; to be incoherent, as persons are at the point of death → 1825 Sc.
► DACKER to waver, to totter, to stagger → 1668 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DAFFLE to waver; to change → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAVER to tremble; to waver → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DUBITATE to doubt, to hesitate, to waver → 1837
► FLECCHE to bend, flinch, give way; to waver, to vacillate → 1300 obs.
► FLIP-FLOP to waver in one’s decisions → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► JARG to waver, to flinch → a1614 Sc. obs.
► MAMMER to hesitate; to be undecided; to waver in determination → 1350 Eng. dial.
► SWIG  to sway about, to waver; to move with a swaying motion → 1833
► TO-WAVER to waver uncertainly; to wander → 1375 obs.
► WAFFLE to waver, to be uncertain, undecided, or hesitant; to vacillate → 1819 Sc.& N. Eng. dial.
► WAG to waver, to vacillate → 1387 obs.
► WAMBLE of things: to totter, to waver; to move unsteadily, to stagger, to reel → 1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WHIFFET to veer, waver, fluctuate; to cause smoke, etc. to wave or fluctuate → 1896 Eng. dial.