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
Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report.
From Time Magazine Archive
For meate in this distance I had plum-porredge of purgations ministred mee one after another to clarifie my bloud, that it should not lye doddered in the flesh.
From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund
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