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verb (used without object)
1.
to walk or go with faltering steps, as if from extreme weakness.
2.
to sway or rock on the base or ground, as if about to fall: The tower seemed to totter in the wind. The government was tottering.
3.
to shake or tremble: a load that tottered.
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Origin:
1150–1200; Middle English toteren to swing < ?
1150–1200; Middle English toteren to swing < ?
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tot·ter·er, noun
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totter
c.1200, "swing to and fro," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. dialectal Norw. totra "to quiver, shake"). Meaning "stand or walk with shaky, unsteady steps" is from c.1600.
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