doddered
Americanadjective
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infirm; feeble.
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(of a tree) having lost most of its branches owing to decay or age.
Etymology
Origin of doddered
Example Sentences
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Mr. Mueller only doddered around painfully and failed to satisfy Mr. Cohen.
From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2019
Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2014
For nine days, the 61st Cannes Film festival had doddered along into a premature senility.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thither she steered, defying wind and snow; guided by here a thorn-tree, there an old, doddered oak, which had not quite lest their identity under the whelming mask of snow.
From Half a Life-Time Ago by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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