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staggerer

  • a word derived from stagger.
    stagger
    verb (used without object)
    to walk, move, or stand unsteadily.

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"That must have been a staggerer," said Hopkins.

From Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile by John Kendrick Bangs

Every word of that 'par' was a staggerer.

From Much Darker Days by Andrew Lang

I don't know whether you intended that for a joke or for a staggerer.

From A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce by John Kendrick Bangs

We cannot say how many, or rather how few, months old the child is, but, as we have already remarked, she is a staggerer.

From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The fust reel staggerer was the reel Firemen, about a thowsand on 'em, a marching along as bold as their brass Helmets.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 by Various