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English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA: /ˈtɒtə/,
(General American|US) IPA: /ˈtɑːtɚ/,
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɒtə(r)|-ɒtə(r)

Noun

totter

a rag and bone man.

Noun

totter

a very cool person

Verb

to totter

to walk,move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall
:The baby tottered from the table to the chair.
:The old man tottered out of the pub into the street.
:The car tottered on the edge of the cliff.
(archaic) to collect junk or scrap

Synonyms

"move unsteady"

Related terms

teeter-totter

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Totter \Tot"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Tottering.] [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS.
tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Cf.Tilt to incline,
Toddle, Tottle, Totty.]
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be
unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age. "As
a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence."
--Ps. lxii. 3.
[1913 Webster]

2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver.
[1913 Webster]

Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet totter
v 1: move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; "The
drunk man tottered over to our table"
2: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle,
dodder, paddle, waddle]
3: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw]

Moby Dictionary
age , alternate , amble , back and fill , barge , blunder , bowl along ,
break down , bundle , capsize , careen , career , cave in , change ,
cheat the undertaker , claudicate , clump , collapse , come a cropper ,
cower , crawl , creep , decline , dither , dodder , dogtrot , drag ,
drag along , drag out , droop , ebb and flow , equivocate , fade , fail ,
fall , fall down , fall flat , fall headlong , fall in , fall over ,
fall prostrate , falter , flounce , flounder , fluctuate , foot ,
footslog , founder , gait , gallop , get a cropper , get along , get on ,
go dead slow , go slow , go through phases , grow old , halt ,
hippety-hop , hitch , hobble , hop , idle , inch , inch along , jog ,
jog-trot , jolt , jump , labor , laze , limp , list , lock step , lumber ,
lunge , lurch , mince , mincing steps , mosey , oscillate , pace , paddle ,
peg , pendulate , piaffe , piaffer , pitch , pitch and plunge , plod ,
plunge , poke , poke along , prance , quake , quiver , rack , reel ,
ring the changes , rock , roll , sashay , saunter , scuff , scuffle ,
scuttle , seesaw , seethe , shake , shamble , shift , shilly-shally ,
shimmy , shiver , shrivel , shuffle , shuffle along , sidle ,
single-foot , sink , skip , slink , slither , slog , slouch , slowness ,
sprawl , spread-eagle , stagger , stagger along , stalk , stammer ,
stamp , step , stomp , straddle , straggle , stride , stroll ,
strolling gait , struggle , strut , stumble , stump , swagger , sway ,
swing , take a fall , take a flop , take a header , take a pratfall ,
take a spill , teeter , teeter-totter , tergiversate , thrash about ,
tilt , tittup , toddle , toddle along , topple , topple over , toss ,
toss and tumble , toss and turn , totter along , traipse , tread ,
tremble , trip , trot , trudge , tumble , turn , turn gray , turn turtle ,
turn white , vacillate , vary , velocity , volutation , waddle , walk ,
wallop , wallow , wamble , wane , waste away , waver , wax and wane ,
welter , wheel , wiggle , wither , wizen , wobble , worm , worm along ,
wrinkle