Totter
verb
To move or walk in a shaking or unstable way, as if about to fall.
The child tottered across the room.
Often appears as...
- totter around
- totter along
verb
To be in a condition of instability or uncertainty.
The empire was tottering on the brink of collapse.
Often appears as...
- totter on the brink
- totter on the edge
verb
To move or walk in a shaking or unstable way, as if about to fall.
The child tottered across the room.
Often appears as...
- totter around
- totter along
verb
To be in a condition of instability or uncertainty.
The empire was tottering on the brink of collapse.
Often appears as...
- totter on the brink
- totter on the edge
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical instability
Use 'totter' to describe someone who is unsteady like a baby learning to walk.
She tottered in her high heels.
Pro Tip 2/3Lack of confidence
'Totter' can show someone's lack of confidence in their movement, not just imbalance.
He tottered onto the stage, nervous for his performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Impact of conditions
Use 'totter' to describe movements affected by external conditions, like high winds.
The pedestrians tottered in the storm.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical instability
Use 'totter' to describe someone who is unsteady like a baby learning to walk.
She tottered in her high heels.
Pro Tip 2/3Lack of confidence
'Totter' can show someone's lack of confidence in their movement, not just imbalance.
He tottered onto the stage, nervous for his performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Impact of conditions
Use 'totter' to describe movements affected by external conditions, like high winds.
The pedestrians tottered in the storm.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical instability
Use 'totter' to describe someone who is unsteady like a baby learning to walk.
She tottered in her high heels.
Pro Tip 2/3Lack of confidence
'Totter' can show someone's lack of confidence in their movement, not just imbalance.
He tottered onto the stage, nervous for his performance.
Pro Tip 3/3Impact of conditions
Use 'totter' to describe movements affected by external conditions, like high winds.
The pedestrians tottered in the storm.
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Video examples
The mighty mathematics...
If you both weigh about the same, you can totter back and forth pretty easily. But what happens if your friend weighs more? Suddenly, you're stuck up in the air. Fortunately, you probably know what to do.
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4 Powerful Poems about...
who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware? Such understated power here, in these tottering dancers who exert stupendous effort
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Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
the huge total at the moment but by the tenth the day I was doing some presentation from the tent I saw that there is an old tortoise shell from a hinge totter showing that the is a hinge
Video examples
The mighty mathematics...
If you both weigh about the same, you can totter back and forth pretty easily. But what happens if your friend weighs more? Suddenly, you're stuck up in the air. Fortunately, you probably know what to do.
Video examples
4 Powerful Poems about...
who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware? Such understated power here, in these tottering dancers who exert stupendous effort
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 257 PIPE...
the huge total at the moment but by the tenth the day I was doing some presentation from the tent I saw that there is an old tortoise shell from a hinge totter showing that the is a hinge
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Quote examples
Paul Auster
American Author
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American Poet
In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.
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Kalki Koechlin
French Actress
It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.
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Donna Brazile
American Politician
Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
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Christina Rossetti
British Poet
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.
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Terry Teachout
American Critic
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
British Author
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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Vladimir Lenin
Russian Leader
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
Quote examples
Paul Auster
American Author
I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.
Quote examples
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American Poet
In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.
Quote examples
Kalki Koechlin
French Actress
It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.
Quote examples
Donna Brazile
American Politician
Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
Quote examples
Christina Rossetti
British Poet
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Quote examples
Simon Sebag Montefiore
British Historian
A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.
Quote examples
Terry Teachout
American Critic
Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.
Quote examples
Dorothy L. Sayers
British Author
As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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Vladimir Lenin
Russian Leader
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
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