Definitions
Etymologies
- Latin titubatus, past participle of titubare to stagger, totter. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One interesting tit-bit about this story is London's use of the word "titubate.”
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
“It struck me, therefore, on reviewing this case, that the more the people drank, the more they would titubate, by which word it was that I expressed the reeling and stumbling of intoxication.”
“If they drank abominably, then of course they would titubate abominably; and titubating abominably, inevitably they would spill in the same ratio.”
“The more they drank, the more they would titubate; the more they titubated the more they would spill;”
“Spilling nearly all, how could they leave to themselves anything worth speaking of to drink yet again, if they drank nothing worth speaking of, how could they titubate?”
“He described Tommy Smith of Liverpool as being a "dyspeptic water buffalo", and had this to say about Manchester City's Georgi Kinkladze: "Kinkladze - twinkle, twinkle, twirl, tantalise, titillate, titubate.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘titubate’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tabacosis, tabanid, tabaret, tabati?re, tabby, tabefaction, tabellary, tabellion, tabernacle, tabernacular, tabescent, tabific and 930 more...
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You Don't Say
Language disorders, disabilities, and unusual demonstrations.
aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, glossolalia, paraphasia, alexia, polymicrogyria, logorrhea, stutter, spoonerism, agraphia, malapropism and 54 more...
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1755
Interesting words appearing in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755). Some are interesting for their unfamiliarity, and some for the meanings then assigned by Johnson.
absonous, adumbrate, agrammatist, alderlievest, ambages, ana, anfrantuous, aperitive, assapanick, babery, bellytimber, blatant and 103 more...
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Rabindranath Not Included
i can't never forget thiccyn's!
bubaline, dezinkhornifistib..., hirundine, bee veil, cuckoo spit, resistentialism, hobthrush, burniebee, hookem-snivey, fattiehead, mompyns, mons and 144 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2263 more...
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Words that sound dirty, but aren't
Inspired by a Candid Camera sketch.
horehound, fugue, ramrod, jocular, thespian, titmouse, masticate, pussyfoot, angina, booby, formicate, hoar and 64 more...
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greensoapmonkey's list
words I never remember, but like.
virago, inamorato, ostranenie, apostasy, timorous, aposiopesis, corpuscule, peloother, shibboleth, hurple, titubate, puckfist and 2 more...
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Grandiloquence
Big, 'fancy' synonyms for simple concepts. Often scientific or medical terms
sternutation, susurration, flatulence, eructation, ephelides, borborygmus, titubate, terpsichorean, tachyphagia, tachyphrasia, sudorous, stupration and 60 more...
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Words Related to Zombie Attacks
rive, bludgeon, apocalypse, maw, behead, amputate, hack, hew, lacerate, rend, rip, sunder and 64 more...
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Buzzwords
Some of my favorite words. And some I've looked up, but soon forget the definition...so it's a kind of word definition storage device as well.
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Physical/Emotional
nouns, adjectives
describing emotion, a mood
alternative word for a physical complaintmulligrubs, nomos, chasse, kiasu, Eeyorish, gilravage, titubate
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mtc
"v. To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane."
PIE (Politically Incorrect Example:) Melvin found the stewardess' airborne titubations tittilating.
Apr 19, 2013
dystopos "Thus, the balance, on which his life titubated, was inclined in his favour by the blunder of a black steersman." - Jack London, Jerry of the Islands, ch. 6 Jun 18, 2007