TOTTER, TOTTERING, TOTTERY
ADJECTIVES
► COCKLETY rickety; tottering; unsteady; applied to what is likely to tumble or fall off → 1883 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CRAMBLY ► CRAMMELLY tottery, unsteady, shaky → 1878 Eng. dial.
► DANDERY trembling, infirm, tottery → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAWTHERING shaky, tottering, trembling → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DAWTHERY shaky, tottering, trembling → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DICKY of things, conditions, etc.: uncertain, doubtful, critical, hazardous; rickety, shaky, tottering → 1851
► DODDLY nervous, shaky, unsteady; tottering, old, and not very well → 1953 Amer. dial.
► HEIVY-KEIVY tottering → 19C Eng. dial.
► LABEFACT shaken, tottering → 1874
► PADDLY tottering, uncertain in gait → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEEDLING tottering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► ROCKY unsteady, tottering, shaky → M18
► SHACKLEY ► SHACKLY ramshackle, rickety, run-down, tottering → 1843 Amer. dial.
► SUCCIDUOUS ready to fall; tottering → 1656 obs.
► TICKLE insecure, unstable, tottering, easily upset; ready to fall → 1515 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TITTERING tottering, swaying. moving unsteadily → 1661
► TITUBANT staggering, tottering, reeling, stumbling, unsteady → 1817
► TOLTER moving unsteadily; unsteady, unstable, tottering; insecure, precarious → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WAFFLIE tottery, staggering → 1973 Sc.
► WALEY-GALEY unsteady, tottering → 19C Eng. dial.
► WAMBLY shaky, tottering, unsteady → 1857 Eng. dial.
► WANKILL ► WANKLE ► WANTLE ► WENKLE unsteady, insecure, tottering → 1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WANKLEY ► WANKLY unstable, wobbly, tottering; unsteady, not to be relied upon, precarious → 1795 chiefly Eng. dial.
► WANKLISH shaky, tottering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANTY unsteady, tottering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
► HYTER-SKYTER with weak, tottering steps → 19C Sc.
► TITTER-TOTTER in a tottering manner; unsteadily → 1725
► WABBLE with a weak tottering step, tremulously → 1866 Sc.
NOUNS
► HYTER-SKYTER the act of walking with very tottering steps → 19C Sc.
► LABASCENCY tottering state or condition → a1657 obs.
► SALLY a run from side to side; a rush, a dash; a swaying, swinging motion; a tottering situation → 1887 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAPPILOORIE anything raised high on a slight or tottering foundation → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TITTERING the act of tottering or swaying; unsteady movement → c1374
► WAMBLE a rolling or unsteady motion; a totter, a quivering or shaking, a wriggle, a tumble → 1825 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► PANTALOON a term of contempt applied to an enfeebled, tottering old man; a dotard, an old fool → 1596-1600 obs.
► PAUCHLE a feeble old person, a tottering old body → 1824 Sc.
► TITTER-TOTTER one who totters, reels, or staggers → a1700 obs.
VERBS
► DACKER to stagger, to totter → 1668 Eng. dial.
► DADDLE to walk totteringly or unsteadily, like a child; to stagger; to walk with short steps, as a small child or an infirm person → 1710 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► DAWTHER to tremble, to shake; to move in an infirm, shaky manner, to totter → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DIDDER-DODDER ► DITHER-DOTTER to totter, to walk in a trembling, shaking manner → 1867 Eng. dial.
► DODDER to move unsteadily; to totter
► DOTTER to walk or move unsteadily; to stagger, to totter; to walk or move slowly or aimlessly; to potter → c1475 chiefly Sc.
► FRIBBLE to falter, to totter in walking → 1709 obs.
► HOTTER to move unsteadily, to totter; to jolt about, as a vehicle on a rough road; to move in an uneven, jerky manner → c1650
► HYTER-SKYTER to walk with tottering steps → 19C Sc.
► LABEFACTATE to cause to totter or fall → 1657 obs.
► PAIDLE to walk, esp. to walk slowly or with short steps; to totter, to toddle; to wander about → 1808 Sc.
► PAY-WAY to totter, to oscillate → 1903 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUEEDLE to oscillate, to shake; to totter; to get about with difficulty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► QUIDDLY to oscillate, to shake; to totter; to get about with difficulty → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► STOTAY to falter, totter, stumble, stagger; to come to a stand → a1400 obs.
► SWAVER to stagger, to totter → a1400 N. Eng. dial.
► TANTLE to walk slowly and feebly; to totter, as a young child; to dawdle, to loiter, to waste time; trifle, to potter about → 1889 Eng. dial.
► TITTER to move unsteadily, as if about to fall; to totter, to reel; to sway to and fro → c1374 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TITUBATE to stagger, to stumble, to trip, to reel, to totter; to rock, roll → 1575
► TODDER to walk unsteadily, to totter → 1871
► TOTTLE to totter, to rock; to cause to totter → c1820 Eng. dial.
► WABBLE to wobble; to walk unsteadily, to stagger, to totter, to rock on one’s feet, to waffle → 1786 Sc.
► WAFFLE to stagger, to totter, to move uncertainly → 1973 Sc.
► WAG to totter, to stagger; to be in danger of falling → c1340 obs.
► WAGGER to stagger, to totter → 1382 obs.
► WAIVE to move to and fro in the wind; to be tossed about; to totter → a1300 obs.
► WALT to totter, to be on the point of falling; to topple, to roll or tumble over → 1923 Sc.
► WALTER to move or go unsteadily; to totter, to stumble; also, to go with a rolling gait; to waddle → 1399 obs.
► WAMBLE 1. of things: to totter, to waver; to move unsteadily, to stagger, to reel → 1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
2. to stagger; to walk feebly, unsteadily, or clumsily; to totter in walking → 1883 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WANGLE to totter, to rock, to shake; to vibrate → 1893 Eng. dial.
► WANKLE to totter → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)