Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Upper Northern & Western U.S. See seesaw.
Wiktionary
- n. A seesaw; a piece of playground equipment consisting of a long board with seats at either end, with a pivot point in the center.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
- v. ride on a plank
Examples
“The girl saw the flash and yelped, and the woman turned to face Pa head-on, the kindling like a teeter-totter on her head.”
“The 3-year-old, four-pound Yorkshire, who wore a ribbon in her hair for the event, cleared several hurdles and tunnels, zigzagged through poles and traversed a teeter-totter at an average two yards per second in a race against the clock.”
The Wall Street Journal: Agility Contests Go to the Dogs as Tiny Breeds Star in 'Petit Prix'
“Much like the two people on this teeter-totter, it can go either way.”
“We have been on this teeter-totter of hope and despair for both sides, but since there is not actually a single piece of legislation on the table -- my latest count was four different versions -- what we're seeing is that both sides are taking their positions and digging in.”
“We played “doctor” (yes, alarming, I know!), and he came over and we watched the Little Mermaid on my teeter-totter in the basement, and played Dollhouse.”
“But unlike our friends on both ends of the ever sloshing teeter-totter, I sit squarely in the center filled with a sense of hope when I hear this term.”
“Nine years old, she loved Belle from Beauty and the Beast and playing on her teeter-totter.”
“It's like a teeter-totter, so you want to establish your center of gravity.”
The Wall Street Journal: Facing Off With a Bull: Tips From Professional Riders
“Maybe the teeter-totter can return to its usual give-and-take functioning after Julie Taymor gets off, but, if not, it's going to change producers' quid pro quo arrangement with the press.”
The Huffington Post: Cara Joy David: Broadway's Web-Slinging Troublemaker
“But, like at the other end of a teeter-totter pivoting at the pad face, it is pushing the cantilever pivot away from the wheel.”
Technical FAQ with Lennard Zinn: A detailed look at brake shudder
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teeter-totter’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Only the Vowels are Different
hip-hop, fiddle-faddle, mishmash, flip-flop, chit-chat, riffraff, knick-knack, ping-pong, zigzag, sing-song, criss-cross, seesaw and 14 more...
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Choi inspired
Fun words my friend loves and others I introduced to him.
Namby-pamby, Niminy piminy, Nitpick, Nit-wit, Piggly-wiggly, Ping-pong, Pitter-patter, Raggle-taggle, Riff-raff, zoot suit, zig-zag, wishy-washy and 73 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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Bring up the bodies
Words found in Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
tussock, wisp, bolster, teeter-totter, pate, carp, sieve, sift
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 436 more...
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Learning new words
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they trip off the tongue
interesting compounds
flummadiddle, flapdoodle, lickety-split, jiggery-pokery, whangdoodle, whippersnapper, mumbo jumbo, shilly-shally, fiddle-faddle, topsy-turvy, fuddy-duddy, hugger-mugger and 38 more...
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Funny Words
Funny sounding words
befuddled, gizmo, teeter-totter, lollygag, cahoots, whippersnapper, kitty-corner, shenanigan, skedaddle, tomfoolery, hornswoggle, humdinger and 38 more...
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