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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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
No dodderer, no lotterer, Rudolf S. Hecht is the able president of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the play, he is a pitiable dodderer who fails to realize what is happening until his son-in-law is murdered.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed?
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm a foolish old man, a poor old dodderer!
From Swan Song by Marian Fell
