Other forms: teetering, teeters, teetered
To teeter is to stand or move unsteadily on the edge of something. Teeter on the brink, teetering pile, teeter and fall.
It is used far more figuratively than literally — economies and governments teeter on the brink constantly. A teeter-totter is the American name for a seesaw. The word is an alteration of an older titter, meaning to sway.
1verbteeterTo stand or move unsteadily.
“She teetered across the room in her new high heels.”
teeter is an unsteady movement.
An alteration of an older titter, meaning to sway or totter, from Old Norse titra, to shake.
Alteration of titter#Etymology_1.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Ways of Moving