Definition of Tittupy

1. unsteady [adj] - See also: unsteady

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittupy

tittle
tittle-tattle
tittle-tattling
tittlebat
tittlebats
tittled
tittles
tittling
tittup
tittuped
tittuping
tittupped
tittupping
tittuppy
tittups
tittupy (current term)
titubant
titubate
titubated
titubates
titubating
titubation
titubations
titular
titular see
titularies
titularity

Literary usage of Tittupy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Newes out of PC vn to canter; also, to shake or bo unsteady; to upset. tittupy, adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty : often applied to furniture. ..."

2. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"... sb. a canter ; a hand-gallop. Newes out of P. 0. vn to canter; also, to shake or be unsteady; to upset. tittupy, adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty ..."

3. The Burden of the Balkans by Mary Edith Durham. (1905)
"thought I, ' the political situation must be uncommonly " tittupy." It was my first, but by no means my last, experience of being ' suspect,' and I was ..."

4. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"Newts out of P. 0. vn to canter ; also, to shake or be unsteady ; to upset. tittupy, adj. unsteady ; shaky ; ricketty : often applied to furniture. ..."

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