Pollyfox

Considerable time was taken up in skirmishing and pollyfoxing to secure the advantage in the start.

[…]whose patience had been worn out by the swiftly-lengthening roll of crime and the pollyfoxing of courts.

That signifies nothing. There is more pollyfoxing and more attempt to evade the question.

The present congress has had ample time and opportunity to do everything that should have been done, and it has chosen to dally and "pollyfox" with public questions in view of the dangerous records that might be made for the coming presidential campaign.

We ain't got no time to polly-fox; we gotter dig!

Judge Stewart calls the lawyers down when they pollyfox in a case.

[…]candidates who had hoped to gum shoe, soft pedal, side-step, pussy foot, and polly fox their way to the presidential chair.

The bank had for its President a shrewd old polly-foxing politician who had financed too many statesmen in Kansas