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ˈtottling, ppl. a.
[f.tottle v.1 + -ing2.]
That tottles; moving unsteadily; apt to tip or topple; shaky; crazy; also fig. feeble or shaky in intellect. Cf. totty a.2
1746Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.) 53 A toteling, wambling, zlottering, zart-and-vair yheat-stool. 1849Dana Geol. ii. (1850) 31 Safe navigation for the tottling canoe. 1873E. H. Clarke Sex in Educ. 35 The girl..will caress a doll, that her tottling brother looks coldly upon. 1880Mrs. Parr Adam & Eve xxxvi, Th' ole chap was gone reg'lar totlin' like, and can't tell thickee fra that. |