Reverse Dictionary: UNSTEADY

ADJECTIVES
► AIVY-KAIVY ► EYVY-KEYVY ► HAVEY-CAVEY ► HEAVY-CEAVY ► HEIGHVY-KEIGHVY unsteady, trembling in the balance; uncertain, undetermined, doubtful, wavering, precarious → 1874 Eng. dial.
► BALLASTLESS unsteady → 1885
► BALTERING unsteady, clumsy → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COCKLETY rickety; tottering; unsteady; applied to what is likely to tumble or fall off → 1883 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COCKLEY unsteady → 1875 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► COGGLETY shaky, unsteady, unstable, rickety → 19C Eng. dial.
► CRAMBLY tottery, unsteady, shaky → 1878 Eng. dial.
► CRAMMELLY tottery, unsteady, shaky → 1878 Eng. dial.
► CRICKELTY unsteady; liable to tilt or upset → 19C Eng. dial.
► DODDLY nervous, shaky, unsteady; tottering, old, and not very well → 1953 Amer. dial.
► DOTTY feeble or unsteady in gait → colloq.
► DRUNK AS AN AUK of a person’s gait: wavering and unsteady → 1885 Eng. dial.
► EMMIS insecurely placed, unsteady, rickety → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FANTASTICAL unsteady; irregular → 1985 US (Bk.)
► FICKLE  unsteady, unsafe; treacherous → 1812 Sc.
► FLAPPY giddy, unsteady → Eng. dial.
► GIVEY unsteady → 1895 Amer. dial.
► GOGGLE-HEADED unsteady, shaky; giddy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GOGGLY unsteady, shaky; giddy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HALLOPIN unsteady, unsettled, foolish → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► INGIDDIED made giddy or unsteady → 1628 obs.
► JOGGLY shaky, unsteady → 1899 Amer. dial.
► LUBRIC slippery, shifty, deceitful; wavering, unsteady, uncertain; prone to danger or error → 1631 obs.
► NAZZLED slightly intoxicated, unsteady → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NIDDLE-NODDLE having a nodding head; nodding, unsteady → 1761
► NIDY-NOY staggering or walking unsteadily from drink → 1791 Sc. 
► ON THE TARVE unsteady → 1910 Amer. dial.
► QUAVERY quavering, jerky, unsteady → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAMSHACKLE of persons, actions, etc.: unsteady, irregular, disorderly, rude → 1855 chiefly Eng. dial.
► RAMSHACKLING worthless; idle; unsteady → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RICKET unsteady, rickety → 1904 Sc. obs. (Bk.)
► RICKETED rickety, shaky, unsteady → 1896 Eng. dial.
► RICKLETY rickety, unstable, dilapidated, unsteady → 1969 Amer. dial.
► ROCKY unsteady, tottering, shaky → M18
► SCADDLE wild, mischievous, unsteady; thievish, esp. used of a cat or dog → 1691 Eng. dial.
► SHITTLE-WITTED fickle, flighty, unstable, unsteady → 1448 obs.
► SWIMMING wavering, unsteady → 1596 obs.
► TICKLISH unstable, unsteady, unsettled, uncertain, fickle → 1606
► TIPPLY apt to tip over; unsteady → 1906 colloq.
► TIPPY characterized by tipping or tilting; unsteady → 1886 colloq.
► TITTERING tottering, swaying. moving unsteadily → 1661
► TITTUPING unsteady, rickety → 1824
► TITTUPY apt to tip up; unsteady, shaky, rickety → 1798 colloq.
► TITUBANT staggering, tottering, reeling, stumbling, unsteady → 1817
► TITUBATING moving unsteadily → 1653
► TOLTER moving unsteadily; unsteady, unstable, tottering; insecure, precarious → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► UNGAIN disagreeable; intractable, troublesome; unsteady, wild; stupid → 1895 Eng. dial.
► VENTILOUS fluttering, flickering, unsteady → 1483 obs.
► WAFFLY easily blown about by the wind, unsubstantial, without stamina; shaky, unsteady → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WAGGLY unsteady → 1905 Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WALEY-GALEY unsteady, tottering → 19C Eng. dial.
► WAMBLY shaky, tottering, unsteady → 1857 Eng. dial.
► WANKILL ► WANKLE ► WANTLE ► WENKLE unsteady, insecure; changeable, unsettled, precarious; inconstant, wavering → c888 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WANKLY unstable, wobbly, tottering; unsteady, not to be relied upon, precarious → 1795 chiefly Eng. dial.
► WANTY unsteady, tottering → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WEE-WAW  askew; crooked; more on one side than the other;  rickety, shaky, loose, unsteady, wobbling → 1746 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► WEGGLETY unsteady → 1877 Eng. dial.
► WIMBLY-WAMBLY unsteady; dizzy; feeling sick and giddy → 1881 Eng. dial.
► WONKY unsteady, shaky → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► WOOZY unsteady; dizzy, disoriented; intoxicated with drugs or drink → 1897 colloq.

ADVERBS
► NIDDLE-NODDLE in a nodding or unsteady manner → 1744 obs.
► NIDDY-NODDY to and fro, unsteadily → 1877
► TITTER-TOTTER in an unsteady or tottering manner; without control or balance in one’s movements → 1673 obs.
► TOLTER unsteadily → 1423 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WAGGLY unsteadily → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WONKILY in a halting and unsteady way → 1990s Amer. students’ sl.

NOUNS
► DOTTINESS unsteadiness or unevenness of gait; esp. used of a horse → 1875 colloq.
► LUBRICITY shiftiness; unsteadiness, instability; elusiveness → 1613
► SHUCK unsteadiness → 1982 Amer. dial.
► STAGGERS, THE a faltering and unsteady physical state, esp. from liquor or narcotics intoxication → 1599
► STOITER a lurch, or unsteady movement; a stumble → Sc.
► TITTERING the act of tottering or swaying; unsteady movement → c1374
► TITUBANCY tipsiness, partial drunkenness; unsteadiness → 1800
► TITUBATION the act of staggering, reeling, stumbling, or tottering; unsteadiness in gait or carriage → 1849
► WAMBLE an unsteady movement of a person or thing; a roll of the body; a rolling or staggering gait → 1825

NOUNS – PERSON
► TITTER-TOTTER a person who is moving in an unsteady manner, or who is easily knocked off balance or made to fall → 1699 obs. (Bk.)
► WAFFLER a person unsteady in gait → 1843 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► BELLRAIVE to rove about; to be unsteady; to act on impulse → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► COGGLE to wobble or be unsteady → 1843 Amer. dial.
► DADDLE to walk unsteadily; to stagger; to walk with short steps → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► 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.
► HABBLE to move unsteadily, to hobble, to limp about → 1788 Sc.
► HALPER to stumble; to go unsteadily; to go backward and forward → 1596 obs.
► MAKE A VIRGINIA FENCE to walk unsteadily, as a drunkard; to stagger in a zigzag course; to be drunk → 1737 Amer. rare
► MAUNDER to wander about in a confused, aimless, or melancholy fashion; to miss one’s way; to walk unsteadily; to act in a helpless, imbecile manner → 1819 Eng. dial.
► POON to be unsteady → 1830 sl.
► TIP to render unsteady; to make drunk; to intoxicate → 1605 sl. obs.
► TIPPER to place in an unsteady position → 1818 Sc.
► TITTER to move unsteadily, as if about to fall; to totter, to reel; to sway to and fro → c1374 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► UNBALLAST to render unsteady → 1836
► WALK ON ROCKY SOCKS to walk unsteadily owing to an excess of drink→ 20C US sl.
► WALLOCK to roll in one’s gait; to walk unsteadily → 1905 Eng, dial. (Bk.)
► WALTER to move or go unsteadily; to totter, to stumble; also, to go with a rolling gait; to waddle → 1399 obs.
► WAMBLE to roll about in walking; to go with an unsteady gait → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WANGLE of a thing: to move loosely or shakily on its base or in its place of attachment; of a person; to go unsteadily → 1820 Eng. dial.
► WUGGLE to waddle; to stagger along unsteadily → 1865 Sc.
► YAW to deviate, to go out of course, to go or move unsteadily → 1584