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
"I'm too old," he said, gathering up the broken bits, "my chances are gone," and he doddered out the door.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had evolved the condition to drive home and clinch the ridiculous impossibility of the other's suit, and here he was, the doddered fule, taking hope!
From Quaint Courtships by Howells, William Dean
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