a. colloq. [f. TITTUP sb.1 or v. + -Y.] Apt to tittup or tip up; unsteady, shaky.
1798. Jane Austen, Northang. Abb., ix. Did you ever see such a little tittuppy thing in your life? There is not a sound piece of iron about it.
1865. Miss A. Manning, Selvaggio, 189. ‘Shall we have a little sail?’ ‘Hum—I think not…. I think the Petrel a tituppy little thing.’
1881. Leicestersh. Gloss., Tittupy, adj. unsteady; shaky; ricketty: often applied to furniture.
