penelopizing

Verb

penelopize (third-person singular simple present penelopizes, present participle penelopizing, simple past and past participle penelopized)

1. (rare) To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the intention of redoing it and repeating this cycle.
   • Diplomacy was still drawing out its lengthened thread — still weaving its long and dilatory web — still Penelopizing — when the same McLeod, the boaster in Canada of his active share in this triple crime of midnight murder, arson, and robbery, crosses over to the American side and repeats, in the...1841, Thomas Hart Benton, "Speech of Mr. Benton, of Missouri, on the Case of McLeod," p. 3 (Google preview)

   Synonyms:

   delay, procrastinate, stall