Translation Japanese English: 尻込み

1 back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, cringe, flinch, funk, pull back, pull in one's horns, quail, recoil, retreat, shrink, squinch, wince, withdraw.

2 back down, back off, back up, cringe, draw back, flinch, funk, move back, pull away, pull back, quail, recede, recoil, retire, retreat, shrink, squinch, wince, withdraw.

3 backfire, backlash, bounce, bound, cringe, flinch, funk, kick, kick back, quail, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, shrink, spring, squinch, take a hop, wince.

4 careen, dither, falter, flap, flicker, flitter, flutter, hesitate, keel, lurch, pother, puff, quiver, reel, stagger, swag, waffle, waver, weave.

5 contract, cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, reduce, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, squinch, wince, wither.

6 cower, crawl, creep, cringe, fawn, flinch, funk, grovel, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince.

7 cringe, flinch, funk, hesitate, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, waffle, waver, wince.

8 cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, squint, wince.

9 digress, divagate, hesitate, hover, oscillate, stray, vacillate, vibrate, waffle, wander, waver.

10 dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, hesitate, procrastinate, shillyshally, stall, waffle, waver.

11 falter, flicker, flitter, fluctuate, flutter, hesitate, quaver, quiver, vacillate, waffle, waver, weave.

12 hesitate, pause, waffle, waver.