jottering
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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Adjective edit
jottering (comparative more jottering, superlative most jottering)
- (Scotland) Shaky; trembling.
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “I Come into My Kingdom”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 301:
- Before your jottering finger could find the trigger, the hilt would dirl on your breast-bane.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
jottering
- Misspelling of jotting.