Adjective: teetery
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more teetery |
| Superlative | most teetery |
Sample Sentences
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Frank and Mary were making their way very carefully across the teetery old plank that led from the bank to the door. [1939, Joseph Burke Egan, Character Building in Primary Grades: Grade Three:]
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Some of the boulders were teetery and tippety and some were not and you never knew which was which until you stepped on or grabbed one. [2005, Larry Kaniut, Tales from the Edge: True Adventures in Alaska:]
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the tower is completely taller than my head and also quite teetery [2011, Joanna Nadin, Penny Dreadful Is a Record Breaker:]
Adjectives inflected like teetery
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From teeter + -y.