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tottering

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
totter/ˈtɒtə(r)/

▶verb

1 move in an unsteady way.

2 (usu. as adj. tottering) (of a building) shake or rock as if about to collapse.

3 be insecure or about to fail.

▶noun a tottering gait.

– derivatives
totterer noun,
tottery adjective.

– origin ME: from MDu. touteren ‘to swing’ (the original sense in Engl.).

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