jottering

English

Etymology 1

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Adjective

jottering (comparative more jottering, superlative most jottering)

1. (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

Verb

jottering

1. Misspelling of jotting.