PUSSYFOOT meaning: Hesitate to act or speak

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word pussyfoot:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

pussyfoot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pussyfoot: Merriam-Webster
pussyfoot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
pussyfoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
pussyfoot: Collins English Dictionary
pussyfoot: Vocabulary.com
Pussyfoot, pussyfoot: Wordnik
pussyfoot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
pussyfoot: Wiktionary
pussyfoot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
pussyfoot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
pussyfoot: Infoplease Dictionary
pussyfoot: Dictionary.com
pussyfoot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Pussyfoot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
pussyfoot: Rhymezone
pussyfoot: FreeDictionary.org
pussyfoot: Mnemonic Dictionary
pussyfoot: TheFreeDictionary.com

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pussyfoot: Encyclopedia

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pussyfoot: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

pussyfoot, pussyfoot, pussyfoot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
pussyfoot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move silently, stealthily, or furtively.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To act timidly or cautiously.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To use euphemistic language or circumlocution.
▸ noun:  (dated) A teetotaller.

Similar:

creep, steal, sneak, mouse, footpad, slink, skulk, stalk, footfuck, sneak in, more...

Opposite:

stomp, stride, march, swagger, saunter

Types:

procrastinate, dawdle, fritter away, waste time, more...

Phrases:

Marc Antony and Pussyfoot, more...

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