Verb

(en verb)

(British) To hem and haw

* 1988 , , Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 154

This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered , he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it.

(Scotland), Usually haiver . To maunder; to talk foolishly; to chatter; talking nonsense; to babble

* 1988 ,

And if I haver''', yeah I know I’m gonna be / I’m gonna be the man who’s '''havering to you.

* 2004 James Campbell, "Boswell and Mrs. Miller", in The Genius of Language (ed. Wendy Lesser), page 194

She havers on about her "faither" and "mirra" and the "wee wean," her child, and "hoo i wiz glaiket but bonny forby."

Verb

(en verb)

To float in the air.

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To linger in one place.

* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

The neighborhood, to our ears, seemed haunted by approaching footsteps; and what between the dead body of the captain on the parlor floor, and the thought of that detestable blind beggar hovering near at hand, and ready to return, there were moments when, as the saying goes, I jumped in my skin for terror.

To waver, or be uncertain.

(computing) To place the cursor over a hyperlink or icon without clicking.