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Definition of Tottery
1. Adjective. Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age. "A tottery old man"
Definition of Tottery
1. a. Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking.
Definition of Tottery
1. Adjective. Tending to totter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tottery
1. shaky [adj] - See also: shaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tottery
Literary usage of Tottery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The People of the Abyss by Jack London (1903)
"We rolled along through miles of bricks and squalor, and from each cross street
and alley flashed "tottery OLD MEN AND WOMEN WERE SEARCHING IN THE GARBAGE ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"2. shaky, quivery, quavery (тате), trembly (rare); spec, tottery. trend, vi
tend (rare of persons), gravitate (formal or learned), set, drift, strike (rare ..."
3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Whereby Hohenzollern comes to mean the High or Upper tottery;—and gives one the
notion of antique pedlars climbing painfully, out of Italy and the Swiss ..."
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