totter
IPA: tˈɑtɝ
noun
- An unsteady movement or gait.
- (archaic) A rag and bone man.
- A surname from German.
verb
- To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
- (figurative) To be on the brink of collapse.
- (archaic) To collect junk or scrap.
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Examples of "totter" in Sentences
- A drunken man is tottering the street.
- The lady constantly totters and falls.
- Who is the man tottering on the street
- Everybody was looking down and tottering.
- To stagger is to totter, reel, or lose balance.
- Do you know the girl tottering near your house
- The man was captured by the police for tottering.
- He was sent to the hospital because he has been tottering.
- Observe the zombies as they totter in, drooling and muttering.
- The walls soon began to totter, and the Mantineans were forced to surrender.
- I can barely lift the bulging knapsack, and when I try to stand, I totter dangerously.
- The water heats her from the inside; she is a bag of water on legs that totter tremble.
- Sancie! he can just walk -- a kind of totter from my knees to Cuthbert's -- and then so proud of himself!
- The moment the sick man could "totter" out of his room, he found his way to her whom he had abjured, and who was in Paris calmly awaiting his return to her.
- But the fact of the matter is, that the Democrats on this sort of teeter totter, that is politics, when the Democrats go up, Republicans go down and vice versa.
- I wanted to de-glamorize the classic fashion industry photos, where women totter in high heels wearing bright red lipstick... and everything is revealed apart from the genital triangle, the real heart of seduction.
- Over the course of a dusty week I discovered an appreciation for beers with my name on them, learned that Baja Bill the owner of the camp makes a mean margarita and even managed to totter over the top of a few waves.
- We have seen the proud and swaggering German, since our first being taken prisoner, gradually sway on his pinnacle, totter, and now fall to become the rabble of disillusioned soldiers that now present in the orbit of our vision.
- "Tall as a pine tree," as the text insists, he has humour as well as pathos: his naked entry into the world is marked by a totter on splayed feet and, when he moves, it is with a forward-thrusting, angular, almost Hulotesque curiosity.
- We have been on this teeter-totter of hope and despair for both sides, but since there is not actually a single piece of legislation on the table -- my latest count was four different versions -- what we're seeing is that both sides are taking their positions and digging in.
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