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noun an unsteady uneven gait
noun an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
verb walk unsteadily
originUltimately from Proto-Germanic *stam- (“to trip up; to stammer, stutter”), thereby related to German stumm (“mute”), Dutch stom (“dumb”). Doublet of stammer. Also related to verb in Dutch stommelen (“to walk silently”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0