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pussyfoot
verb
to act with such caution that your behaviour appears evasive or cowardly US, 1903
From the cautious progress of cats.- For Christ’s sake, Walter, I can’t go around pussyfooting on this. — Robert Campbell, In La-La Land We Trust, p. 10, 1986
- To reach the restaurant, we had to cross a corner of the paddy field, jump a ravine, and pussyfoot through a ruin. — Cleo Odzer, Goa Freaks, p. 28, 1995
- We always pussy-footed around it or tried to find ways of accommodating it. — Sally Cline, Couples: Scene From the Inside, p. 298, 1998
- He said it was time for Boorman to stop pussyfooting around and to take an aggressive stance with consumers[.] — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 297, 1999
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