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Tottering vs Tittering - What's the difference?

tottering | tittering |

As verbs the difference between tottering and tittering

is that tottering is while tittering is .

As nouns the difference between tottering and tittering

is that tottering is the movement of one who totters while tittering is the act of one who titters.

As an adjective tottering

is unsteady, precarious or rickety.

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

    tittering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who titters.
  • * 1855 , Anna Mary Howitt, A school of life (page 63)
    • The good signor's little address was received in a variety of ways: there were titterings and coughings, and there were also a few instances of noble and generous response to poor Leonard's action