totter

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (intransitive) To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
2. (figuratively, intransitive) To be on the brink of collapse.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To collect junk or scrap.

Noun

1. (intransitive) An unsteady movement or gait.
2. (archaic, intransitive) A rag and bone man.

Concepts

chanceler

barguigner

écroulement

étourdi

glisser

hésiter

instable

pagaie

tapecul

tituber

vaciller

chancelant

se traîner

battre ou mettre en carène

chute

Synonymes

stagger

sway

wobble

reel

lurch

waddle

teeter

toddle

falter

stumble

waver

shake

🫨

tremble

dodder

pitch

coggle

rock

🪨

vacillate

paddle

be unsteady

seesaw

roll

wiggle

careen

flounder

hesitate

shaky

slip

swag

tilt

be lopsided

rock to and fro

move over

bumble

shamble

shillyshally

slip and fall

lunge

stalk

lumber

unsteady on one’s feet

swagger

loose

swing

limp

teeter-totter

tergiversate

stagger around

hickey horse

keel

Traductions

schwanken

barcollare

torkeln

waggelen

tambalear

taumeln

wackeln

wankelen

vacilar

cambalear

trontollar

aarzelen

vacilar

titubear

zagen

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈtɒtə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: totren

Appartenant à écossais: tolter

Hérité de ancien anglais: tealtrian

Appartenant à néerlandais: touteren

Appartenant à norvégien: -

Appartenant à frison septentrional: talt

In summary

From Middle English totren, toteren, from earlier *tolteren (compare dialectal English tolter (“to struggle, flounder”); Scots tolter (“unstable, wonky”)), from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, a frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”).
Cognate with Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), Norwegian dialectal totra (“to quiver, shake”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Related to tilt.