teeter, seesaw, totter
(verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion
toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle
(verb) walk unsteadily; “small children toddle”
totter
(verb) move without being stable, as if threatening to fall; “The drunk man tottered over to our table”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
totter (third-person singular simple present totters, present participle tottering, simple past and past participle tottered) (intransitive)
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.
• (move unsteadily): reel, teeter, toddle, stagger, sway
totter (plural totters)
An unsteady movement or gait.
(archaic) A rag and bone man.
Source: Wiktionary
Tot"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tottering.] Etym: [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.
2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 March 2025
(adjective) celebrated in fable or legend; “the fabled Paul Bunyan and his blue ox”; “legendary exploits of Jesse James”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
