vacilar

Borrowed from Latin vacillāre.

vacilar (first-person singular present vacilo, first-person singular preterite vacilei, past participle vacilado)

1. (intransitive) to vacillate (to sway unsteadily from one side to the other)
2. (intransitive) to vacillate (to swing from one course of action or opinion to another)
3. (intransitive) to hesitate
4. (informal) to make a mistake or a wrong choice

   Synonym: bobear

5. (Brazil, idiomatic, intransitive) to behave inattentively, obliviously, or uncarefully

   Synonyms: marcar bobeira, dar bobeira, dar sopa, dar bandeira, marcar touca, moscar, panguar, brisar

• “vacilar” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

From Latin vacillō.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /baθiˈlaɾ/ [ba.θiˈlaɾ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /basiˈlaɾ/ [ba.siˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: va‧ci‧lar

vacilar (first-person singular present vacilo, first-person singular preterite vacilé, past participle vacilado)

1. to hesitate, waver, dither (UK), vacillate
2. (colloquial, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala) to enjoy
3. (colloquial) to spy on
4. (colloquial) to kid, tease, rib, trick; to play a joke on, to pull someone's leg

   Synonym: tomar el pelo

• “vacilar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014