Associations to the word «Tottering»

Wiktionary

TOTTERING, adjective. Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
TOTTERING, adjective. Unstable, insecure or wobbly.
TOTTERING, verb. Present participle of totter
TOTTERING, noun. The movement of one who totters.

Dictionary definition

TOTTERING, adjective. Unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age; "a tottering skeleton of a horse"; "a tottery old man".
TOTTERING, adjective. (of structures or institutions) having lost stability; failing or on the point of collapse; "a tottering empire".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King