staggers
IPA: stˈægɝz
noun
- Any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs
- staggers and jags, delirium tremens or extreme inebriation
- A surname.
- (Oxford University slang, archaic) St Stephen's House, Oxford.
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Examples of "staggers" in Sentences
- The perception that must be involved to do this kind of staggers the mind.
- Version 'erreth,' is literally 'staggers' or 'reels,' and it is more graphic to keep that meaning.
- What staggers me is when I remind myself that it was only in 1991 that the law was changed to make rape within marriage an offence.
- Abdiel is Faith, and a blow from his sword staggers the skeptical Satan, or in Scriptural metaphor removes the mountain into the sea (vi.
- We stayed in the mines until 3.30 in the afternoon and the "staggers" -- our pet name for the foremen -- saw to it that we had a busy time of it.
- Rather than go down in flames, it's more likely that the Gingrich campaign staggers painfully, bleeding money and support until there's nothing left.
- We also completely buy it as he staggers onstage and somehow pulls it together to perform his signature tunes and engage an enthusiastic, if tiny, audience.
- "My grandfather was a very poor minister, and kept a cow, which was a very great help in the support of his children -- he had ten of them; -- and the cow took the" staggers "and died.
- II. iii.170 (58,9) [Into the staggers] One species of the _staggers_, or the _horses apoplexy_, is a raging impatience which makes the animal dash himself with destructive violence against posts or walls.
- 'ard frost,' arder nor hiron; in the second place, I've got no arrangements made -- you can't turn out a pack of 'igh-bred fox-'ounds as you would a lot of "staggers" or "muggers"; and, in the third place, you'll knock all your nags to bits, and they are a deal better in their wind than they are on their legs, as it is.