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单词 totterer
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totterern.

/ˈtɒtərə/
Etymology: < totter v. + -er suffix1.
One who totters, or walks with tottering steps.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > unsteady > one who
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1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 21 Apr. (1948) I. 248 I am much better than I was, though something of a totterer.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 702 He snatched the little totterers..up in his arms.
1890 J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. xii. 262 If you totter already, the tottering against you of ever so many totterers will only floor you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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