teeter vs waddle

teeter

verb
  • To tilt back and forth on an edge. 

  • To be close to becoming a typically negative situation. 

  • To be indecisive. 

noun
  • A teeter-totter or seesaw. 

waddle

verb
  • To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side. 

  • To move slowly. 

noun
  • A squat, swaying gait. 

How often have the words teeter and waddle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )