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doddered

[dod-erd]

adjective

  1. infirm; feeble.

  2. (of a tree) having lost most of its branches owing to decay or age.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of doddered1

First recorded in 1690–1700; dodder 1 + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

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Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.

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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.

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Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."

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The slow slugs crawl among their graves where creep The doddered poison-vines.

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Well—it was you that doddered away from them, to talk about Voltaire's bogy.

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