Hawing

My humming and hawing is merely a public display of imploring and hope that the movie does justice to the book. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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." ❋ William Patten (1902)

Note, Paul kind of expects an answer immediately, and our hemming and hawing was in poor form. ❋ Antonio Garcia-Martinez (2010)

I was approached to do a piece for the Huckleberry Finn show and I spent several months humming and hawing about it because after I had the big traveling show [ "Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love"] I was feeling a little reactionary against myself and my work and against the very stereotypes you were talking about: the silhouette-artist, the negress, all of that. ❋ Robert Ayers (2010)

Here's the funny thing with the overrun provision: Seattle is notorious for hemming and hawing and delaying projects, and so the State decided to give themselves an out in case Seattle's hemming and hawing lengthened the project and made it more expensive. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Smoke called a warning to prevent a rear-end collision, and the Baron, hawing his animals and swinging on the gee-pole, went by a dozen feet to the side. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not to worry: staffers are proving their mettle with some nifty major league hemming and hawing and harrumphing and walking back that statement faster than a toddler can spit milk through his nose. ❋ Will Durst (2011)

It's now a monthly ritual: jobs numbers for the previous month come out, they're labeled "disappointing," and there's a lot of hemming and hawing and throat clearing and pronouncements about how "something really must be done," and about how vitally important it is to "get America back to work." ❋ Arianna Huffington (2011)

After a couple of days of hemming and hawing, Buck agreed with Tancredo -- and took hits in the press for days afterward. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Congress and the White House continue their hemming and hawing on investigation Bush era torture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The usual answer, after uncomfortable hemming and hawing, is that we don't quite know just yet. ❋ Gregory Unruh (2011)

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). ❋ Unknown (2010)

[Nelson Muntz]: [Haw haw]! ❋ Gunslingergirlvye_c_e (2005)

- Duuuude! i can play Seagull sounds on guitar! -How? -I just switched Cables on my [Wah Pedal]! -Oh yearh? Pink Floyd did that long time ago... - Totally Wah Wah [Wahhhhh] - Duuude, you mean "[Haw Haw] Haaaaw ❋ Takseb (2010)

[Alexa]: im a whore [LJ]: Tell me something i dont know. [HAW HAW] ❋ LilJeff524 (2008)

Itold [my teacher] i was hawwing all [weekend] [long] ❋ Morgan And Luke (2021)

Man, I've got the [blue ball]. I need to go [get some] [haw haw]. ❋ (2018)

Person 1: yeah we killed [the dog] that got [in the way] Person 2: [haw] ❋ Stanford_University (2022)

[This is] yoooooouuuuuuuuuuu! [Haw Haw] Haw Haw Haw Haw Haw! ❋ Eric Shum (2004)

[Friend] : who’s your [role model] Me: [will haw] ❋ T-snizzle (2020)

"she just set her [username] as something [dorky]! haw!" "HAWWWWWW!" "hawhaw, [you're so funny]" "Haw-de-haw" ❋ Luvmehaw-ing (2007)

guy 1: dude, that girl you brought to my party [the other night] was so hot. guy 2: Yeah man, I know. She's a bit of a [Haw] though - but [that's okay]. ❋ Tyrone2323 (2009)