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totterier

totterier is the comparative form of tottery.

Meaning of tottery

Adjective

tottery (comparative totterier or more tottery, superlative totteriest or most tottery)

  1. Tending to totter.
    • The other two […] hobbled along bent double and supporting their tottery steps on staves to mark the weight of years; for they played the part of two medicine-men of venerable age and great magical power.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 11, page 236

Questions about totterier

What is totterier the comparative form of?
Totterier is the comparative form of tottery.

Words near totterier in the dictionary

  1. tottered
  2. totterer
  3. totterers
  4. tottergrass
  5. Totteridge
  6. totterier
  7. totteriest
  8. tottering
  9. Totteringham
  10. totteringly
  11. totterings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: totterier (page history and authors); tottery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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