doddered

American  

[dod-erd] / ˈdɒd ərd /

adjective

1. infirm; feeble.

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

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Etymology

Origin of doddered

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

Example Sentences

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

And his judgment was even more damning than mine, for Christopher was an amicable person, who doddered along, accepting life as it came, too weary for enmities, or too well trained to show them.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by Gibbs, George