tottle
nounEtymology Blend of tube + bottle.
1
A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.
tottle
verbUK /ˈtɒt.əl/ · US /ˈtɑ.təl/
Etymology Compare toddle and totter.
1
Colloquial To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
- I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events.1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery:
- Derived terms
- tottlish