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tottle en · VERB · etymology 1

Compare toddle and totter.

(colloquial, intransitive) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
- I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events. 1870, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery:

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tottled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
tottled	Tense=Past	lexicographic
tottling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
tottles	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

From total.

(archaic, dialectal) To add up; to sum to a total.
- It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum. 1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, page 38:

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tottled	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
tottled	Tense=Past	lexicographic
tottling	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
tottles	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic

Blend of tube + bottle.

A container, generally of plastic, which is not a simple tube and which is kept with its cap down.

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