English-Thai Dictionary

totter

N การ ก้าวเดิน อย่าง ไม่มั่นคง  kan-kao-doen-yang-mai-man-kong

 

totter

VI เดินโซเซ  เดิน อย่าง ไม่มั่นคง  shake quake tremble doen-so-sea

 

totter

VI ไม่มั่นคง  mai-man-kong

 

tottering

ADJ โซเซ  โอนเอน  so-sea

 

tottery

ADJ ที่ ไม่มั่นคง  สั่นคลอน  ง่อนแง่น  weak rattletrap ti-mai-man-kong

 

tottery

ADJ โซเซ  weak rattletrap so-sea

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOTTER

v.i.[This may be allied to titter. ] 1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; as, an old man totters with age; a child totters when he beings to walk.
2. To shake; to reel; to lean.
As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. Psalm 62:3.
Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall.

 

TOTTERING

ppr. Shaking, as threatening a fall; vacillating; reeling; inclining.

 

TOTTERY

a.Shaking; trembling or vacillating as if about to fall; unsteady. [Not in use. ] [Spenser wrote tottle, as the common people of New England still pronounce it. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOTTER

Tot "ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tottered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tottering. ]Etym: [Probably for older tolter; cf. AS. tealtrian to totter, vacillate. Cf. Tilt to incline, Toddle, Tottle, Totty. ]

 

1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as, an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. " Ps. lxii. 3.

 

2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, and totters to her fall. Dryden.

 

TOTTERER

TOTTERER Tot "ter *er, n.

 

Defn: One who totters.

 

TOTTERINGLY

TOTTERINGLY Tot "ter *ing *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a tottering manner.

 

TOTTERY

TOTTERY Tot "ter *y, a.

 

Defn: Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

totter

tot ter |ˈtätər ˈtɑːtər | ▶verb [ no obj. ] move in a feeble or unsteady way: a hunched figure tottering down the path. • (usu. as adj. tottering ) (of a building ) shake or rock as if about to collapse: tottering, gutted houses. • be insecure or about to fail: the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a feeble or unsteady gait. DERIVATIVES tot ter er noun, tot ter y adjective ORIGIN Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren ‘to swing ’ (the original sense in English ).

 

totter

totter 2 |ˈtɒtə (r )| ▶noun Brit. informal a person who makes a living by salvaging saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps. Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning . ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from tot 3 .

 

Oxford Dictionary

totter

totter 1 |ˈtɒtə | ▶verb [ no obj., with adverbial ] move in a feeble or unsteady way: a hunched figure tottering down the path. • (usu. as adj. tottering ) (of a building ) shake or rock as if about to collapse: tottering, gutted houses. • be insecure or about to fail: the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis. ▶noun [ in sing. ] a feeble or unsteady gait. DERIVATIVES totterer noun, tottery adjective ORIGIN Middle English: from Middle Dutch touteren ‘to swing ’ (the original sense in English ).

 

totter

totter 2 |ˈtɒtə (r )| ▶noun Brit. informal a person who makes a living by salvaging saleable items from dustbins or rubbish heaps. Coney Street in York was a totter's paradise on Tuesday morning . ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from tot 3 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

totter

totter verb 1 arm in arm, they tottered across the lawn: teeter, dodder, walk unsteadily, stagger, wobble, stumble, shuffle, shamble, toddle; reel, sway, roll, lurch. 2 the foundations began to heave and totter: shake, sway, tremble, quiver, teeter, shudder, rock, quake; chiefly Brit. judder.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

totter

totter verb 1 she tottered off on her four-inch heels: teeter, walk unsteadily, stagger, wobble, stumble, dodder, shuffle, shamble, falter, reel, toddle, hobble, sway, roll, lurch. 2 the foundations began to heave and totter: shake, sway, tremble, quiver, teeter, shudder, judder, rock, quake, reel, lurch; vibrate, oscillate. 3 the Habsburg Empire was tottering: be unstable, be unsteady, be shaky, be insecure, be precarious, be on the point of collapse, falter; informal wobble.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

totter

tot ter /tɑ́tə r |tɔ́tə /動詞 自動詞 1 よろめく, よちよち歩く .2 〈建物などが 〉ぐらつく ; 〈国 制度などが 〉崩壊しそうになる .名詞 C よろめき, ぐらつき .～er /-t (ə )rə r /名詞 ～ing ly /-t (ə )rɪŋli /副詞