Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which totters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who totters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
totters .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall
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Examples
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Often Meredith wishes to be too concise, and squeezes his thoughts together like this: and the totterer Earth detests,
Figures of Several Centuries Arthur Symons 1905
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God be thanked, I am much better than I was, though something of a totterer.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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Ever since you were a little totterer whom I carried in my arms and planted on the top of the garden wall to pick coquelicots, I have thought of you as one to be some day mine.
St George's Cross 1870
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God be thanked, I am much better than I was, though something of a totterer.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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