Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Staggering; tottering; stumbling.
Wiktionary
- adj. stumbling, staggering; with the movement of one who is tipsy
Examples
“So, here she went, "titubant" (= staggering) from one cardinal point to the next ... and stopped.”
“Their loud affirmative voice contrasts strongly with the titubant accents of the intellect.”
“At any rate I gave way, muttering something pettish, I expect, and I escorted my titubant doxy, who was now frothing at the mouth, through the crowd which had begun to collect and up to her room on this landing.”
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