Definition of "pussyfoot" []

• To move stealthily or cautiously. (verb-intransitive)
• Informal To act or proceed cautiously or timidly to avoid committing oneself. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Many political futures had been wrecked and wasted by ambitious politicians who tried to "pussyfoot" on this issue."
• "For the same reason that we continue to "pussyfoot" around in Iraq and Afghanistan .."
• "I don't see any reason to "pussyfoot" (to quote a famous Democrat racist, George Wallace)."