totter
7 synonyms for totter, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To walk or stand in a shaky way, as if about to fall.
Synonyms
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Etymology
Came into English from Middle English totren, toteren, from an earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), which in turn came from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *...
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