Tottery

Definition: Tottery

Tottery

Adjective

1. Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man".

Date "tottery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Synonym: Tottery

Synonym: tottering (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tottery

English words defined with "tottery": tottering, Totty. (references)

"Tottery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tottery" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Language		Translations for "tottery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i lëkundur (crazy, Dickey, dicky, Dotty, hesitant, hesitating, shilly shally, tottering, undecided, vacillating). (various references)

Arabic		‏مترنح (drunken, faltering, groggy, reeling, rocky, shaky, staggering, tottering). (various references)

Bulgarian		клатушкащ се (niddle-noddle), нестабилен (crank, dicky, doddery, groggy, insecure, uncertain, unsound, unstable, unsteady, wonky), несигурен (build on sand, chancy, dangerous, disputable, dubious, equivocal, faltering, halting, insecure, irresolute, long, pendulous, precarious, problematic, queasy, risky, rocky, shaky, slippy, suspensive, tentative, top heavy, treacherous, uncertain, uneasy, unreliable, unresolved, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsteady, unsure, untrustworthy, variable, versatile, wonky), залитащ (tottering). (various references)

French		chancelant (tottering). (various references)

German		tatterig (doddering, doddery, quivery, shaky), wacklig (ramshackle, ramshackly, shakily, shaky, tottering, uneasy, unsteady, wobbly), wackelich, klapprig (clapped out, ramshackle, rickety, shaky). (various references)

Greek		ετοιμόρροποσ (crumbly, decrepit, derelict, floppy, groggy, ramshackle, tumble down), ασταθήσ (choppy, erratic, inconstant, infirm, top heavy, tottering, unstable, unsteady, wabbly), τρεκλίζω (stagger, totter). (various references)

Hebrew		מת� ו�"�" (pendulous, unsteady). (various references)

Hungarian		támolygó (giddy-paced, groggy, tottering, wobbling), düledezõ (ramshackle, tumble down). (various references)

Italian		barcollante (faltering, groggy, staggering). (various references)

Pig Latin		otterytay

Portuguese		titubeante (tottering, wavering), pouco firme (incompact, infirm, insecure, niddle-noddle, rattletrap, shaky, shifting, tottering, uncertain, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsure, weak-kneed, wobbly, wonky), incerto (borderline, chancy, double-minded, doubtful, doubting, dubious, fitful, floating, hazardous, incalculable, inconstant, insecure, kittle, lubricous, precarious, problematic, questionable, risky, shaky, shifting, slippery, slippy, touch and go, touch-and-go, unassured, uncertain, undecided, unreliable, unsettled, unstable, unsure), cambaleante (groggy, tottering, vacillating). (various references)

Russian		трясущийся (niddle-noddle, palsied, quaky). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rasklimatan (niddle-noddle, wobbly). (various references)

Spanish		tambaleante (ramshackle, rickety, shaky, staggering, tottering, wobbly). (various references)

Swedish		vacklande (oscillation, rocky, shaky, shilly shally, stagger, tottering, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, wavering, wobble, wobbly), stapplande (faltering, tottering). (various references)

Turkish		yalpalayan (groggy, wavering), sendeleyen (groggy, shaking, staggering, tottering, tripping, vacillating, wobbly), sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, Dickey, dicky, doddering, doddery, jerky, palsied, rocky, shaky, tottering). (various references)

Ukrainian		хиткий (crazy, dicky, rickety, sandyish, shaky, wabbly, waggly, weak, wobbly, wonky). (various references)

Vietnamese		sắp đổ lảo đảo; chập chững, lung lay (loose, niddle-noddle, oscillatory, tottering). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Tottery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oterey, tertery, titteya, t'other, tottere, Tottey. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "tottery" (pronounced 'Tot"ter*y'): Adulterously, Adultery, Allottery, Alterably, Artery, Bartery, Bitterly, Blistery, Blusteringly, Boisterously, Butterfly, Canterbury, Catery, Cautery, Clatteringly, Clusteringly, Clustery, Counter-compony, Counterfeitly, Counterfleury, Counterflory, Counter-paly, Countersway, Daughterly, Dexterously, Flatteringly, flattery, Flutteringly, Galvanocautery, Glitteringly, interestingly, latterly, Littery, Loiteringly, lottery, masterfully, mastery, Mattery, Mistery, Mutteringly, Palterly, Periptery, Pewtery, Phylactery, Plasterly, Plastery, Pottery, Psaltery, Putery, Rettery. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-o-r-t-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: totter.
	-2 letters: otter, rotte, torte, toter, toyer.
	-3 letters: oyer, rote, ryot, tore, tort, tory, tote, tret, trey, trot, troy, tyer, tyre, tyro, yett, yore.
	-4 letters: ore, ort, ret, roe, rot, rye, tet, toe, tor, tot, toy, try, tye, yet.
	-5 letters: er, et, oe, or, oy, re, to, ye, yo.
	Words containing the letters "e-o-r-t-t-t-y"
	+4 letters: totteringly.
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