pussyfoot

pussyfoot
    v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around
         spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: {sneak}, {mouse},
         {creep}, {pussyfoot}]
    

84 Moby Thesaurus words for "pussyfoot":
      about the bush, around the bush, be careful, be cautious,
      beat about, beat around, beg the question, bicker, boggle, cavil,
      choplogic, couch, crawl, creep, dodge, duck, equivocate, evade,
      evade the issue, fence, glide, go on tiptoe, grovel, gumshoe,
      hedge, hem and haw, hesitate, hum and haw, inch, inch along,
      lay wait, lie in wait, lurk, make haste slowly, mystify, nightwalk,
      nitpick, obscure, pad, palter, parry, pick nits, prevaricate,
      prowl, pull away, pull back, put off, quibble, recoil, scrabble,
      scramble, shadow, sheer off, shift, shift off, shrink, shuffle,
      shy, shy away, shy off, sidestep, sidle, skulk, slide, slink, slip,
      snake, sneak, split hairs, stalk, steal, steal along, step aside,
      swerve, take it easy, tergiversate, think twice, tippytoe, tiptoe,
      walk on eggshells, ward off, weasel, worm, worm along