totter
Meaning of totter
verb
- move in a feeble or unsteady way.
a hunched figure was tottering down the path
- (of a structure) shake or sway as if about to collapse.
the building began to totter and then the roof gave way
noun
a feeble or unsteady gait.
Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren ‘to swing’ (the original sense in English).
noun- a person who makes a living by salvaging saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps.
Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning
late 19th century: from tot3.
Information about totter
- The plural form of totter is: totters.
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Hyphenation of totter
tot-ter
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- totter is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
totter synonyms
Meaning toddle:
toddle, coggle, dodder, paddle, waddle
Meaning teeter:
Meaning walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall:
Meaning move unsteadily in a particular direction:
Meaning trip repeatedly as one walks:
Meaning walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground:
Meaning (of a person) move with a slow, shuffling, awkward gait:
Meaning lose strength or momentum:
Meaning lose one's balance and stagger or lurch violently:
Meaning walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury:
Meaning move or cause to move slowly or rhythmically backwards and forwards or from side to side:
Meaning move along or from side to side unsteadily or uncontrollably:
Meaning make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) shake or quiver slightly:
Meaning tremble or shake with a slight rapid motion:
Meaning (of a person) tremble convulsively, typically as a result of fear or revulsion:
Meaning (especially of something mechanical) shake and vibrate rapidly and with force:
Meaning the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil:
Meaning (especially of the earth) shake or tremble:
Meaning move continuously and rapidly to and fro:
Meaning move or swing back and forth in a regular rhythm:
Words that rhyme with totter
Platter, Schlatter, Vatter, aftermatter, antimatter, atter, backfatter, backscatter, batter, bebatter, bechatter, beclatter, beflatter, bescatter, bespatter, besplatter, betatter, blatter, catter, chatter, clatter, clitterclatter, combatter, cybersquatter, debatter, discatter, fatter, flatter, flyswatter, formatter, gatter, gnatter, hamfatter, hatter, latter, matter, natter, nonmatter, nonshatter, outbatter, outchatter, outflatter, overmatter, overscatter, overspatter, patter, phatter, photostatter, platter, preflatter
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