Definition of "hawing" []

• Present participle of haw. (verb)

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• "My humming and hawing is merely a public display of imploring and hope that the movie does justice to the book."
• "For a time he nearly deserted the schoolhouse for the Italian camp in the pines, or at least was flying back and forth a great deal, "hawing" and "harring.""
• "No, to get revenue you would have to hit the middle class (Something that Obama has figured out, based on his recent hemming and hawing on that)."