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verb ˈdɒdəˈdɑdər [no object]often as adjective dodderingTremble or totter, typically because of old age. Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back.
- She took note of the open plan bars and restaurants, the oppressive fluorescent lights and the doddering passengers wandering aimlessly trying to kill time.
- As he dodders about, still actively producing art, he relates stories from his life to his young daughter.
- The fact that the leader of the free world used to be a doddering old guy completely out of touch with reality seems more cute than menacing these days.
- That's because you're a doddering old recluse who doesn't get out of the house nearly half as much as is good for you.
- The old gardener made an incoherent sound, dropped the basket and fled, doddering on those peculiar Rris ankle joints.
- The king is a doddering old fool, and his son is so love-struck that he is not fit to be ruler of a great nation.
- Am I mistaken in thinking you still want to stand around talking like a doddering fool?
- We watch him dodder and disintegrate, and we sympathize.
- You're not really working, but neither are you decrepit and doddering into some home with Alzheimer's.
- The town treats its older hotels like a doddering uncle who needs to be put away.
- The Levi's name has grown into doddering old age in a brutally competitive apparel market.
- Jaques is looked upon as something of a doddering old fool by some of his younger comrades, but as Wright plays him, he's far, far more.
- It is sixty years since the fall of the Third Reich, and the hunted monster is now a pathetic and doddering old man in his nineties.
- A character who is presumably either her doddering old grandmother or mother-in-law comes out with some cups of tea.
- But I won't be left doddering here like some incapable ninny.
- A passing, elderly couple gave us a concerned glance as they doddered past.
- They come on Uncle Junior's recommendation, but they prove to be doddering old fools with bad or no eyesight.
- He's like a doddering old man sitting in his horse and buggy, shaking his liver spot covered fist at passing automobiles.
- He is famous for doddering around with a camera crew in tow, picking up strange slithery beasts that look like they might bite him and poking sticks at them.
Synonyms totter, teeter, toddle, hobble, shuffle, shamble, falter, walk haltingly, walk with difficulty, move falteringly, stumble, stagger, sway, lurch, reel wobble, shake, tremble, quiver Scottish & Northern English hirple rare doddle tottering, tottery, teetering, doddery, staggering, shuffling, shambling, faltering, shaking, shaky, unsteady, wobbly, wobbling, trembling, trembly, quivering feeble, frail, weak, weakly, infirm, decrepit aged, old, elderly, long in the tooth, in one's dotage, senile
Derivatives noun ˈdɒdərəˈdɑd(ə)rər A government member labelled the retired military chiefs & diplomats as old dodderers. Example sentencesExamples - I have yet to discover that having been born when Cal Coolidge was gearing up to run for re-election confers any eminence upon this dodderer.
- Often dismissed as wrinklies and fogeys, dodderers and ditherers, it turns out that the company's target audience are, in fact, among the biggest consumers in the country.
- When he talks to sixth-formers, he starts off by saying that they probably think he's a dusty old dodderer.
Origin Early 17th century: variant of obsolete dialect dadder; related to dither. noun ˈdɒdəˈdɑdər A widely distributed parasitic climbing plant of the convolvulus family, with leafless threadlike stems that are attached to the host plant by means of suckers. Genus Cuscuta, family Convolvulaceae Example sentencesExamples - Because C. arvensis is more closely related to the dodders than is tobacco, C. arvensis was also used as a control.
- Eventually a mat of stems forms around the host plant and the dodder loses contact with the soil.
- Then the dodder snakes around its new host, grows into a large stringy mass, and ultimately chokes and kills its lifeline.
- By tying suitable stem explants of dodder to touch the host, Kelly observed that 60% of individuals rejected suitable hosts within several hours.
Origin Middle English: related to Middle Low German doder, dodder, Middle High German toter. verbˈdɑdərˈdädər [no object]Tremble or totter, typically because of old age. spent and nerve-weary, I doddered into the foyer of a third-rate hotel Example sentencesExamples - The fact that the leader of the free world used to be a doddering old guy completely out of touch with reality seems more cute than menacing these days.
- The town treats its older hotels like a doddering uncle who needs to be put away.
- He's like a doddering old man sitting in his horse and buggy, shaking his liver spot covered fist at passing automobiles.
- We watch him dodder and disintegrate, and we sympathize.
- But I won't be left doddering here like some incapable ninny.
- A passing, elderly couple gave us a concerned glance as they doddered past.
- As he dodders about, still actively producing art, he relates stories from his life to his young daughter.
- The Levi's name has grown into doddering old age in a brutally competitive apparel market.
- The king is a doddering old fool, and his son is so love-struck that he is not fit to be ruler of a great nation.
- He is famous for doddering around with a camera crew in tow, picking up strange slithery beasts that look like they might bite him and poking sticks at them.
- Am I mistaken in thinking you still want to stand around talking like a doddering fool?
- They come on Uncle Junior's recommendation, but they prove to be doddering old fools with bad or no eyesight.
- She took note of the open plan bars and restaurants, the oppressive fluorescent lights and the doddering passengers wandering aimlessly trying to kill time.
- It is sixty years since the fall of the Third Reich, and the hunted monster is now a pathetic and doddering old man in his nineties.
- That's because you're a doddering old recluse who doesn't get out of the house nearly half as much as is good for you.
- A character who is presumably either her doddering old grandmother or mother-in-law comes out with some cups of tea.
- You're not really working, but neither are you decrepit and doddering into some home with Alzheimer's.
- The old gardener made an incoherent sound, dropped the basket and fled, doddering on those peculiar Rris ankle joints.
- Jaques is looked upon as something of a doddering old fool by some of his younger comrades, but as Wright plays him, he's far, far more.
- Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back.
Synonyms tottering, tottery, teetering, doddery, staggering, shuffling, shambling, faltering, shaking, shaky, unsteady, wobbly, wobbling, trembling, trembly, quivering totter, teeter, toddle, hobble, shuffle, shamble, falter, walk haltingly, walk with difficulty, move falteringly, stumble, stagger, sway, lurch, reel
Origin Early 17th century: variant of obsolete dialect dadder; related to dither. nounˈdädərˈdɑdər A widely distributed parasitic climbing plant of the morning glory family, with leafless threadlike stems that are attached to the host plant by means of suckers. Genus Cuscuta, family Convolvulaceae Example sentencesExamples - Because C. arvensis is more closely related to the dodders than is tobacco, C. arvensis was also used as a control.
- Eventually a mat of stems forms around the host plant and the dodder loses contact with the soil.
- Then the dodder snakes around its new host, grows into a large stringy mass, and ultimately chokes and kills its lifeline.
- By tying suitable stem explants of dodder to touch the host, Kelly observed that 60% of individuals rejected suitable hosts within several hours.
Origin Middle English: related to Middle Low German doder, dodder, Middle High German toter. |