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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot]

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Date: 1903 1. to tread or move warily or stealthily 2. to refrain from committing oneself • pussyfooter noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. 1 move stealthily or warily. 2 act cautiously or noncommittally. Derivatives: pussyfooter n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pussyfoots, pussyfooting, pussyfooted) If you say that someone is pussyfooting around, you are criticizing them for behaving in a too cautious way because they are not sure what to do and are afraid to commit themselves. Why don't they stop pussyfooting around and say what they really mean? VERB: V around/about, also V [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

about the bush, around the bush, be careful, be cautious, beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil, choplogic, couch, crawl, creep, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade, evade the issue, fence, glide, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe, hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, hum and haw, inch, inch along, lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, make haste slowly, mystify, nightwalk, nitpick, obscure, pad, palter, parry, pick nits, prevaricate, prowl, pull away, pull back, put off, quibble, recoil, scrabble, scramble, shadow, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shuffle, shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidle, skulk, slide, slink, slip, snake, sneak, split hairs, stalk, steal, steal along, step aside, swerve, take it easy, tergiversate, think twice, tippytoe, tiptoe, walk on eggshells, ward off, weasel, worm, worm along