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Tottery

adjective
1.
Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age.  Synonym: tottering.  "A tottery old man"






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"Tottery" Quotes from Famous Books



... or, rather, cottage, which was in a street behind the west side of the square. She was too tottery, too dazzled, too afflated to speak on the way thither, but, at the door, when with a bow I was intending to leave her, she bade me, in a madam-like way that cut off debate or ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... contingent. Stourmouth followed suit in the shape of General Frayling—attended by Marshall Wace in full clerical raiment—bearing a wreath of palm, violets, and myrtle wholly disproportionate in bulk and circumference to his own shrivelled and rather tottery form.—Of this unlooked for advent more hereafter.—Other distinguished soldiers came from Aldershot and down from town. A permanent Under Secretary, correct but visibly bored, ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet



Words linked to "Tottery" :   unsteady, tottering



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