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[ tot-uh-ree ] / ˈtɒt ə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR tottery ON THESAURUS.COM
Origin of totteryFirst recorded in 1745–55; totter + -y1 Words nearby totterytotsiens, Tottenham, Totten trust, totter, tottering, tottery, tottie, totting, totty, toucan, toucanet Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for totteryAs if in answer to his thoughts, the tottery old nobleman raised his long arm, and at once the hall became absolutely silent. The Royal Book of Oz|L. Frank Baum But before ten days were gone, even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery. The Faith of Men|Jack London In this way the ghost of the victim, whose things are carried in the bundle, is supposed to make their enemies weak and tottery. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3)|Sir James George Frazer Cash was tottery weak from his own illness, and he could not speak above a whisper.
When we were finishing our breakfast the door opened, and in came little Flossie, very pale and tottery, but quite unhurt. Allan Quatermain|H. Rider Haggard
Words related to totteryambiguous, borderline, capricious, changeable, dizzy, dubious, erratic, fickle, fitful, giddy, inconsistent, inconstant, insecure, irrational, lubricious, mercurial, mobile, movable, moving, mutable |