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UK
/tˈɒtəɹi/
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ADJECTIVE
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unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age
a tottery old man
a tottering skeleton of a horse
How To Use tottery In A Sentence
- I'm gonna buy me a little red dress and some tottery shoes.
- But before ten days were gone even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
- a tottery old man
- Though souls may rush together, if body cannot endure body, happiness is reared on sand and the structure will be ever unstable and tottery. CHAPTER 8
- So we've set up the rather tottery edifice that is normal under the legal system in England and Wales and, for the next eight to twelve weeks or so, we'll live inside it, propping it up and patching it as necessary.
- At a market, tottery old men and women were searching in the garbage thrown in the mud for rotten potatoes, beans, and vegetables, while little children clustered like flies around a festering mass of fruit, thrusting their arms to the shoulders into the liquid corruption, and drawing forth morsels but partially decayed, which they devoured on the spot. THE DESCENT
- An intimate tangle of dog-leg lanes led me on, to find the Priuli Fountain squeezed between a modern block of flats and a tottery old house with an overhanging Turkish upper storey.
- There was a farmer who rang in with a heifer that was very tottery on its feet and salivating.
- I found him first, a little withered, dried-up old fellow, wrinkled-faced and bleary-eyed and tottery. CHAPTER XII
- But before ten days were gone, even the woman Ipsukuk exhausted her provisions, and went home weak and tottery. A HYPERBOREAN BREW