different between hesitating vs fickle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?z?te?t??/

Alternative forms

• hæsitating (archaic)

Verb

hesitating

1. present participle of hesitate

Noun

hesitating (plural hesitatings)

1. hesitation
   • 1836, Charles Dickens, The mistaken milliner. A tale of ambition

     Miss Martin, after sundry hesitatings and coughings, with a preparatory choke or two, […] commenced a species of treble chirruping […]

Anagrams

• athetising, eating shit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?k.?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English fikil, fikel, from Old English ficol (“fickle, cunning, tricky, deceitful”), equivalent to fike +? -le. More at fike.

Adjective

fickle (comparative fickler or more fickle, superlative ficklest or most fickle)

1. Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
2. (figuratively) Changeable.
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fikelen, from fikel (“fickle”); see above. Cognate with Low German fikkelen (“to deceive, flatter”), German ficklen, ficheln (“to deceive, flatter”).

Verb

fickle (third-person singular simple present fickles, present participle fickling, simple past and past participle fickled)

1. (transitive) To deceive, flatter.
2. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.

Anagrams

• Fickel