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Pottering vs Tottering - What's the difference?

pottering | tottering |

As verbs the difference between pottering and tottering

is that pottering is while tottering is .

As nouns the difference between pottering and tottering

is that pottering is the act of one who potters while tottering is the movement of one who totters.

As an adjective tottering is

unsteady, precarious or rickety.

pottering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who potters.
    • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Had Feltram in some of his solitary wanderings and potterings lighted upon hidden treasure?

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    tottering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  • Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The movement of one who totters.
  • * George Moore
    • Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train

    Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly