tottering

English

Verb

tottering

1. present participle and gerund of totter

Adjective

tottering (comparative more tottering, superlative most tottering)

1. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
2. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Translations

wobbly

German: wackelnd (de), schwankend (de) Greek: Ancient: σφαλερός (sphalerós) Latin: cādūcus Maori: hūoioi Polish: chwiejny (pl)

Noun

tottering (plural totterings)

1. The movement of one who totters.
   • 1918, George Moore, A Storyteller's Holiday:

     Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train […]

Synonyms

• (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly