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teeter-totter, n. (and a.) dial. and N. Amer.|ˈtiːtəˌtɒtə(r)|
[Reduplication from stem of teeter v. or totter v.; cf. titter-totter n. (adv.) and teeter-totter (vb.) s.v. teeter v. 1 b.]
A see-saw; formerly also, the game of see-saw. Also attrib. or as adj.
[1895W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia 225 Teeter-cum-tauter, a see-saw.] 1905Dialect Notes III. 66 Teeter-totter, n. or v. See-saw. ‘We played teeter-totter.’ 1933Sun (Baltimore) 19 Aug. 2/6 Wallace explained the teeter-totter economics of hogs and corn made a solution more difficult, and said the Government had waited for the farmers themselves to produce a plan. 1959A. Hitchcock's Mystery Mag. Feb. 70/2 Her body, which had bounced off a section of hedge onto the fulcrum of a teeter-totter. 1962W. O. Mitchell Kite xv. 197 Got to balance exactly..like two boys on a teeter-totter—same weight to the ounce. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. June 289 A teeter-totter task and water-level apparatus. 1975in W. Viereck Lexikalische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey I. iv. 141 Children also like to play on a{ddd}teeter-totter. |