STUMBLE, STUMBLING
ADJECTIVES
1519 — LUMPERING stumbling → obs.
1817 — TITUBANT staggering, tottering, reeling, stumbling, unsteady
1866 — HAGGLY hesitant, stumbling, lacking fluency → Sc.
1888 — TANGLE-FOOTED having tangled feet, stumbling
1905 — PECKY inclined to stumble → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1907 — DING-TOED pigeon-toed; given to stumbling → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1390 — SPURN a trip or stumble → obs.
1543 — OFFENSION stumbling; striking against some obstacle → obs.
1583 — BACHLING shambling, stumbling → Sc.
1724 — STOITER a lurch, or unsteady movement; a stumble → Sc.
1766 — HAP-STUMBLE a chance stumble → Sc.
1849 — TITUBATION the act of staggering, reeling, stumbling, or tottering; unsteadiness in gait or carriage
NOUNS, PERSON
1905 — HAMREL an awkward person; one who stumbles often in walking → Sc. (Bk.)
1907 — DINGLE-TOES a person given to stumbling → Amer. dial.
1907 — DING-TOES one who stumbles → Amer. dial.
1930 — BLIND-BUCK AND DAVY a clumsy, weak-sighted, stumbling person → Amer. dial.
1965 — CLUBFOOT a person who stumbles; an awkward, clumsy person → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1000 — SPURN to trip or stumble; to strike against something with the foot → obs.
1300 — STUMMER to stumble → obs.
1362 — THRUMBLE to stumble → obs.
1382 — OFFEND to strike with the feet against something, to stumble → obs.
1399 — WALTER to move or go unsteadily; to totter, to stumble; also, to go with a rolling gait; to waddle → obs.
1400 — STOTAY to falter, totter, stumble, stagger; to come to a stand → obs.
1573 — STUT to stumble in walking → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1575 — TITUBATE to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll
1581 — LUMPER to move clumsily; to stumble or blunder along → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1596 — HALPER to stumble; to go unsteadily; to go backward and forward → obs.
1623 — CESPITATE to stumble; to ‘hit one’s foot against a turf’ → obs.
1681 — STRUMBLE to stumble → obs.
1724 — STOITER to stagger or stumble → Sc.
1731 — HAGGLE to hesitate, to stumble → Sc.
1786 — HAMMER to work or walk in a clumsy, noisy manner; to stumble → Sc.
1790 — MISTAKE A FOOT to stumble → Sc. obs.
1792 — TINE ONE’S FOOT → TINE ONE’S FEET to lose one’s footing; to stumble → Sc.
1808 — HAMBLE to walk feebly or awkwardly; to walk lame; to limp; to stumble → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1814 — MISS A FOOT to miss one’s footing; to make a false step; to stumble → Sc.
1866 — KEAVE to stumble, to stagger → Eng. dial.
1873 — BALTER to tread heavily and clumsily; to walk unsteadily, to stumble → Eng. dial.
1887 — FANKLE to move the feet or hands uncertainly; to stumble; to fumble → Sc.
1898 — BLAWTHER to bungle or blunder; to stumble → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — MISTAKE THE ROAD to stumble → Sc. obs. (Bk.)
1911 — BLUNTHER to move clumsily and noisily; to stumble → Sc. (Bk.)
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