Tottery

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tottery \Tot"ter*y\, a.
     Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady;
     shaking. --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tottery
       adj : unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering
             skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man" [syn: {tottering}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "tottery":
     anile, battered, beat-up, beaten up, broken-down, crabbed,
     debilitated, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, doddered, doddering,
     doddery, doubtful, dubious, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic,
     groggy, in ruins, infirm, insecure, mossbacked, moth-eaten,
     mummylike, palsied, papery-skinned, ramshackle, ravaged with age,
     ricketish, rickety, rocky, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, run-down,
     rusty, senile, shaky, shriveled, slummy, spidery, spindly,
     stricken in years, teetering, teetery, timeworn, tottering,
     treacherous, tumbledown, uncertain, undependable, unhealthy,
     unpredictable, unreliable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady,
     unsure, untrustworthy, weak, withered, wizened, wobbly