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Tooter vs Totter - What's the difference?

tooter | totter |

As nouns the difference between tooter and totter

is that tooter is a person or device which toots; a person who plays upon a pipe or horn while totter is an unsteady movement or gait.

As a verb totter is

to walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.

tooter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person or device which toots; a person who plays upon a pipe or horn.
  • *1897 , , Captains Courageous , ch. 8,
  • *:"Gimme the tooter ." Dan took the tin dinner-horn, but paused before he blew.
  • (Ben Jonson)

    totter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an unsteady movement or gait
  • (archaic) A rag and bone man.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To walk, move or stand unsteadily or falteringly; threatening to fall.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-04-21, volume=411, issue=8884, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Subtle effects , passage=Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese, a silvery metal, began to totter , slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated.}}
  • (archaic) To collect junk or scrap.
  • Synonyms

    * (move unsteadily) teeter, toddle, sway