teeter — OET · Shobdo

teeter

verb

1 Daisy teetered towards them in her high-heeled boots:

totter, walk unsteadily, wobble, toddle;

sway, rock, try to keep one's balance;

stagger, stumble, reel, roll, lurch, pitch;

Scottish stot.

2 the situation teetered between tragedy and farce:

see-saw, veer, fluctuate, oscillate, swing, yo-yo, alternate;

waver, wobble;

North American teeter-totter.

teeter Oxford Dictionary of English