'teeter' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to indicate that something or someone is unsteadily balanced or is swaying or moving back and forth. Example Sentence: She teetered on her high heels as she walked across the room.
Back in 2013 Cyprus tried to secure Russian financial aid as the island's capital Nicosia watched its banking system teeter on the verge of collapse.
A prolonged international crisis followed, during which Europe appeared to teeter on the edge of war.
We're always going to teeter pretty close to it, that's just the way we play, but we've got to make sure we don't cross it".
Those rules are that 1) the wrestlers should be in their late 50s and look alarmingly close to death, 2) all wrestling should take place in a regional leisure centre's disused badminton court, and 3) every match should teeter permanently on the brink of being disrupted by an overzealous old lady climbing into the ring from the audience and angrily waving her umbrella about.
Higher salaries as well as an increase in staff numbers resulted in an annual rise of 5.4% in personnel costs in the public administration in 2009.That does not read like a wave of sympathy to me.In France, the two most newsworthy protests teeter on self-parody.
Car companies, says McKinsey's Mr Mercer, are like steel mills and airlines, often seeming to teeter on the edge of bankruptcy but somehow managing to keep going.
"Tittermatorter", for example, gave birth to the American "teeter-totter".Americans also share some grammatical constructions with their East Anglian antecedents: "You had better go to bed dew you be tired in the morning," says Mr Trudgill—"dew", or "do", in this case means "else"—is also used in North Carolina.
To compensate, the eardrums of O. ochracea are connected by a structure similar to a teeter-totter, which amplifies the small differences in the arrival times of sounds and thus allows the insect to precisely locate its prey.
Researchers copied that teeter-totter mechanism to create a tiny device that could be used in the next generation of hearing aids or to create adaptive microphones that focus on particular sounds or conversations.
On the "grass" is a kind of delicately balanced, S-shaped, transparent plastic teeter-totter — like a French curve — with three small meringues on it, and a larger white-chocolate soccer ball balancing them on a protruding platform at the very end.
What's on your mind?" Basker told him the folks in Norman were getting upset about the giant teeter-totter he was building to reach from Maine to Calif., referred to as the U.S. Interstate Bicentennial Teeter-Totter.
