ppl. a. [f. TOTTLE v.1 + -ING2.] That tottles; moving unsteadily; apt to tip or topple; shaky; crazy; also fig. feeble or shaky in intellect. Cf. TOTTY a.2

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1746.  Exmoor Scolding (E.D.S.), 53. A toteling, wambling, zlottering, zart-and-vair yheat-stool.

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1849.  Dana, Geol., ii. (1850), 31. Safe navigation for the tottling canoe.

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1873.  E. H. Clarke, Sex in Educ., 35. The girl … will caress a doll, that her tottling brother looks coldly upon.

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1880.  Mrs. Parr, Adam & Eve, xxxvi. Th’ ole chap was gone reg’lar totlin’ like, and can’t tell thickee fra that.

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