0 present participle of pussyfoot
1 to avoid making a decision or expressing an opinion because you are uncertain or frightened about doing so:
For too long now we have been pussyfooting around.
I thought this restraint was taking pussyfooting almost too far.
We cannot go on pussyfooting by means of little announcements by civil servants and others.
That is not pussyfooting but a coherent philosophy of good government.
Yet we seem to be pussyfooting along without meeting what is going to be a very serious social problem.
Lamentably, pussyfooting goes on and on and on as the chosen order of march, as these proposals so amply demonstrate.
Does not this problem show that the time has come to stop pussyfooting about extending human rights legislation?
I do not think that the public very much appreciates the sort of pussyfooting attitude which has surrounded the particular incident over the past week.