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tolter

tolter verb: to flounder about.

Verb

tolter (third-person singular simple present tolters, present participle toltering, simple past and past participle toltered)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To flounder about.

Forms of tolter

third-person singular presenttolters
present participletoltering
past participletoltered
pasttoltered

Origin of tolter

From Middle English *tolteren, from Old English tealtrian (“to totter, vacillate”), from Proto-Germanic *taltrōną, *taltōną (“to sway, dangle, hesitate”), from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”). Doublet of totter.

Questions about tolter

What does tolter mean?
Tolter means to flounder about.
What part of speech is tolter?
Tolter is a verb.
What is the past tense of tolter?
The past tense of tolter is toltered.

Words near tolter in the dictionary

  1. Toltec
  2. Toltecan
  3. Toltecans
  4. Toltecs
  5. tolted
  6. tolter
  7. toltered
  8. toltering
  9. tolterodine
  10. tolters
  11. tolting

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