Totter Definition

tŏtər
tottered, tottering, totters
verb
tottered, tottering, totters
To rock or shake as if about to fall; be unsteady.
Webster's New World
To be on the point of failure or collapse.
Webster's New World
To proceed with feeble, unsure steps.
Webster's New World
To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.
American Heritage

(archaic, intransitive) To collect junk or scrap.

Wiktionary
noun
totters
The act or condition of tottering.
American Heritage
An unsteady walk or movement.
Webster's New World
(archaic) A rag and bone man.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Totter

Noun

Singular:
totter
Plural:
totters

Origin of Totter

  • From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare English dialectal tolter (“to struggle, flounder"); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky")), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate"), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōnÄ…, *taltōnÄ… (“to sway, dangle, hesitate"), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate"). Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble"), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky"). Related to tilt.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English toteren perhaps of Scandinavian origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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