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Staggerer

Definition: Staggerer

Staggerer

Noun

1. Someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "staggerer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)


Synonyms: Staggerer

Synonyms: reeler (n), totterer (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Staggerer

Language Translations for "staggerer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

goditje e fortë (oner, slog, slug, smacker, snifter, stinger, swat, swinger, swipe, thump, wallop), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, stroller, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

зашеметяващ удар (knockdown), потресаващо събитие, потресаващо известие. (various references)

   

Czech

  

ohromení (amazement, consternation, dismay). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elsöprõ érv. (various references)

   

Manx

  

loaganagh (groping, rocking, rocky place, staggering, staggery, wavering). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aggererstay

   

Portuguese

  

argumento que abala. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

persoanã care ezitã, persoanã care şovãie, obiecţie care zãpãceşte, argument care zãpãceşte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сильный удар (bang, bash, biff, clip, humming blow, lick, pelt, plunk, polt, slog, swinger, swipe, thwack, wallop, whack), трудный вопрос (crux, hard nut, knotty question, poser, puzzler). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

osoba koja se tetura, ono što zaprepašćuje, kolebljivac (waverer). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

golpe fuerte (coup, drive, swat, swinger, swipe). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

сильний удар (bang, bash, lick, oner, pelt, plunk, slam, slog, spanker, swat, swinger, swipe, wallop). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự kiện l m sửng sốt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Staggerer

Derivations

Words beginning with "staggerer": staggerers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Staggerer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-g-r-r-s-t"

-1 letter: regrates.

-2 letters: ergates, gagster, gargets, garrets, garters, graters, greaser, greater, raggees, regears, reggaes, regrate, regrets, restage, retears, serrate, stagger, taggers, tearers.

-3 letters: aggers, agrees, aretes, arrest, eagers, eagres, easter, eaters, egesta, eggars, eggers, egrets, eraser, ergate, gagers, garget, garret, garter, gaster, grater, grates, grease, greats, greets, ragees, raggee, rarest, raster, raters, regear, reggae.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-g-r-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: staggerers.

 

+2 letters: remortgages, resegregate.

 

+3 letters: exaggerators, reaggregates, regurgitates, resegregated, resegregates.

 

+4 letters: carpetbaggers, resegregating, resegregation.

 

+5 letters: reaggregations, resegregations, roentgenograms, stereographing, tergiversating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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