hesitating

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of hesitate

noun

  1. hesitation
    Miss Martin, after sundry hesitatings and coughings, with a preparatory choke or two, […] commenced a species of treble chirruping […] 1836, Charles Dickens, The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition

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