Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To stumble; trip; stagger; reel; rock or roll.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To stumble.
- intransitive verb To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
stagger - verb obsolete To
rock orroll , like acurved body on aplane . - verb To
stutter ,stammer
Etymologies
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Examples
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One interesting tit-bit about this story is London's use of the word "titubate."
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.” 2008
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It struck me, therefore, on reviewing this case, that the more the people drank, the more they would titubate, by which word it was that I expressed the reeling and stumbling of intoxication.
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If they drank abominably, then of course they would titubate abominably; and titubating abominably, inevitably they would spill in the same ratio.
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The more they drank, the more they would titubate; the more they titubated the more they would spill;
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Spilling nearly all, how could they leave to themselves anything worth speaking of to drink yet again, if they drank nothing worth speaking of, how could they titubate?
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He described Tommy Smith of Liverpool as being a "dyspeptic water buffalo", and had this to say about Manchester City's Georgi Kinkladze: "Kinkladze - twinkle, twinkle, twirl, tantalise, titillate, titubate.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
dystopos commented on the word titubate
"Thus, the balance, on which his life titubated, was inclined in his favour by the blunder of a black steersman." - Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 6
June 18, 2007
mtc commented on the word titubate
"v. To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane."
PIE (Politically Incorrect Example:) Melvin found the stewardess' airborne titubations tittilating.
April 19, 2013
qms commented on the word titubate
He rises to urgently micturate
But, tending to totter and titubate,
He's slow to the door -
Can hold it no more -
Arriving, alas, just a bit too late.
March 31, 2017