单词 | dodder |
释义 | dodder1/ˈdɒdə /verb [no object] (often as adjective doddering) Tremble or totter, typically because of old age: that doddering old fool...
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 Derivativesdodderer
OriginEarly 17th century: variant of obsolete dialect dadder; related to dither. Rhymesdodder2/ˈdɒdə /noun A widely distributed parasitic climbing plant of the convolvulus family, with leafless thread-like stems that are attached to the host plant by means of suckers.
OriginMiddle English: related to Middle Low German doder, dodder, Middle High German toter. |
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