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Tottering vs Jottering - What's the difference?

tottering | jottering |

As verbs the difference between tottering and jottering

is that tottering is while jottering is .

As an adjective tottering

is unsteady, precarious or rickety.

As a noun tottering

is the movement of one who totters.

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

    jottering

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (Scotland)
    • (Robert Louis Stevenson)