Totter meaning

tŏt'ər

An unsteady movement or gait.

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To walk unsteadily or feebly; stagger.

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To proceed with feeble, unsure steps.

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An unsteady walk or movement.

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(archaic) A rag and bone man.

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To walk,move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.

The baby tottered from the table to the chair.

The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.

The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.

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(archaic, intransitive) To collect junk or scrap.

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The act or condition of tottering.

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Origin of totter

Middle English toteren perhaps of Scandinavian origin

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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 *taltrÅnÄ…, *taltÅnÄ… (“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.

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