waver

Meanings

Verb

• To sway back and forth; to totter or reel.
• To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light.
• To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch.
• To shake or tremble, as the hands or voice.
• To falter; become unsteady; begin to fail or give way.
• To be indecisive between choices; to feel or show doubt or indecision; to vacillate.

Noun

• An act of wavering, vacillating, etc.
• Someone who waves, enjoys waving, etc.
• Someone who specializes in waving (hair treatment).
• A tool that accomplishes hair waving.
• A sapling left standing in a fallen wood.

Origin

• From Middle English waveren, from Old Norse vafra ("to flicker"), akin to Old English wǣfre ("restless, wavering"). Related to wave.