tottle
English
Verb
tottle (third-person singular simple present tottles, present participle tottling, simple past and past participle tottled)
- (colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
- 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
- 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.
- 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
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