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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Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.
From The New Yorker
Each Tuesday and Thursday, I doddered around a facility crammed with post-hip-replacement septuagenarians and spent a lot of time trying to touch my toes.
From Washington Post
Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."
From Los Angeles Times
The slow slugs crawl among their graves where creep The doddered poison-vines.
From Project Gutenberg
Well—it was you that doddered away from them, to talk about Voltaire's bogy.
From Project Gutenberg
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