tottering
Speech parts
1. tottering - Noun
2. tottering - Adjective
3. tottering - Verb
5. tottering - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Totter
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Examples
When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman's wisdom.
At the time this hazardous prophecy was made, the huge overgrown Roman Empire was tottering to its fall. Does a similar fate await the British Empire?
A tottering man must lean upon a staff.
Better to stumble once than be always tottering.