haw

If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder.

They back away and hem and haw and leave it to the lower courts to implement their decisions.

A chorus of haw haws, showed how delighted his fellow-clowns were with farmer Joe's story.

The Irish title of the letter a or haw is alif, as also is the Arabian: the Greek alpha is either alpa or alfa.

This seemed a good joke, and they all howled and haw-hawed gleefully.

Why do these—these people at the fort hem and haw and hesitate when they speak about him?

He looked like an animated drying-post, and the Dutch boy, in spite of his troubles, began to haw-haw wildly.