Tottle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɒt.əl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Tottle is a verb meaning (colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
Meaning
(colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
More Meanings
- A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.
- (archaic, dialect) To add up; to sum to a total.
Example Sentences
It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.
I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.
Word Forms
- tottles
- tottling
- tottled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include totter, toddle, teeter, wamble, wobble, titter.
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