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 or roll, like a curved body on a plane.
  • verb To stutter, stammer

Etymologies

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Latin titubatus, past participle of titubare to stagger, totter.

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  • "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

  • "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

  • 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