tottering

English

Verb

tottering

present participle of totter

Adjective

tottering (comparative more tottering, superlative most tottering)

Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

Translations

wobbly

Greek:
Ancient: σφαλερός (sphalerós)

Latin: cādūcus
Maori: hūoioi

Noun

tottering (plural totterings)

The movement of one who totters.
- (Can we date this quote?) George Moore
  Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train […]

Synonyms

(not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over): precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly

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