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Staggerer

noun
1.
Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.  Synonyms: reeler, totterer.






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"Staggerer" Quotes from Famous Books



... joke worth telling. In this line, Jack was a discriminating anthologist, and, moreover, a judicious adapter—all his gestes being related in the first-person-singular. His autobiographical record was a staggerer; but I happened to recognise amongst his affaires de coeur several very old acquaintances, and made allowance accordingly. If he had been a truthful man, the floor of the hut would have opened that night ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy

... a going on much as usual at our grand old Manshun House under our trewly liberal LORD MARE, but I ain't had nothink werry new to tell about, till a few nites ago, when we had what I can truthfully call a reel staggerer, and no mistake. It seems as it's allers the custon, when a Embassadore, who has made hisself werry poplar, is gitting jest a leetle tired of us, and begins to si for Ome sweet Ome, for the principalest Gent in London to give him sitch a grand Bankwet as he ain't never seen afore, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 • Various



Words linked to "Staggerer" :   walker, footer, stagger, pedestrian



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