dodder
verb (used without object)
to shake; tremble; totter.
dodderer
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a word derived from
dodder.
Example Sentences
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Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed?
From Time Magazine Archive
No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Riding high on Brookmeade's luck, Garner, a comparative dodderer among jockeys, at 34 was having the best season of his 20 years in racing.
From Time Magazine Archive
In these stories, as in the author's novels, nothing seems to be contrived and everything seems worth hearing about, whether the subjects are men at war, children, or a dodderer on a park bench.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't 'ee hark to the ancient dodderer," interrupted the dodderer's wife.
From The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie
