shilly-shallyern.
One who shilly-shallies.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun] > irresolute or vacillating person
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1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 697 Silly shallow shilly-shallyers.
1835 R. Southey Doctor III. 324 He was no shillishallier.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Contrib. to Punch in Wks. (1886) XXIV. 187 Shilly-shallyers are cowards.
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