titubates

Verb

titubate (third-person singular simple present titubates, present participle titubating, simple past and past participle titubated)

1. (obsolete) To stagger
2. (obsolete) To rock or roll, like a curved body on a plane.
3. To stutter, stammer.
   • They must let us alone here, we govern ourselves, we are by way of being totally autonomous. (The plethora of t’s there made his tongue titubate, but it was a brave show.)1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford