staggers
sta gerz
- n a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling
- n an unsteady uneven gait
- v walk as if unable to control one's movements
- v walk with great difficulty
- v to arrange in a systematic order
- v astound or overwhelm, as with shock
- A herd of cows staggers ankle deep through greasy waters in Venice.
- But there's genius here, and if it occasionally staggers, the book deserves our forgiveness and our respect, as does Eggers himself.
- That might be a blessing in the early scenes, which have as much peeing and belching as a PG-13 rating will allow, and where the strangely Shrekish-looking Hrothgar staggers about .