tottery

1. 1.

   unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

   “a tottering skeleton of a horse”

   “a tottery old man”

   Synonymstottering

   Similarunsteady

Questions about tottery

What does tottery mean?

tottery means "unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age".

How many syllables are in tottery?

tottery has 3 syllables: tot-te-ry. The stress falls on "tot".

What is another word for tottery?

Close synonyms include tottering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tottery a common word?

tottery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.