Word Meanings - TOTTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. Sir W. Scott. For yet his noule was totty of the must. Spenser.

SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
TOTTERY
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
DIZZY
disi, desi, foolish, AS. dysig; akin to LG. düsig dizzy, OD. deuzig, duyzig, OHG. tusig foolish, OFries. dusia to be dizzy; LG. dusel dizziness, duselig, dusselig, D. duizelig, dizzy, Dan. dösig drowsy, slepy, döse to make dull, drowsy, dös
SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER
SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
NOULE
The top of the head; the head or noll. Spenser.
TOTTY
Unsteady; dizzy; tottery. Sir W. Scott. For yet his noule was totty of the must. Spenser.
SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.