Word of the Day for Monday, October 10, 2011
titubant \TICH-oo-buhnt\, noun:
A disturbance of body equilibrium in standing or walking, resulting in an uncertain gait and trembling.
After the B.O. is voted out of office next November, the world will no longer be titubant, the financial markets will stabilize, and we will all be happy campers once again; well, as much as we can be considering the damage that the liberals have wrought upon our society; then it will just be damage control for the next 50 years!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Byron did something of the kind in Don Juan; and the world at large is still quivering and titubant under the shock of his appeal.-- W. E. Henley, "The Secret of Wordsworth," The Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 30, 1903
Sir Oran's mode of progression being very vacillating, indirect, and titubant; enough so, at least, to show that he had not completely danced off the effects of the Madeira.-- Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, Volume 1
Titubant derives from the Latin titubātiōn- meaning a staggering, equivalent to titubāt, past participle of titubāre to stagger + -iōn-.
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