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[ dod-er-ing ] / ˈdɒd ər ɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR doddering ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveshaky or trembling, as from old age; tottering: a doddering old man. Also dod·der·y [dod-uh-ree]. /ˈdɒd ə ri/. Origin of dodderingFirst recorded in 1735–45; dodder1 + -ing2 Words nearby dodderingDOD, do-dad, Dodd, dodder, doddered, doddering, doddie, doddle, Dodds, doddy, dodeca- Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dodderingA living, doddering Lee was far less useful to the pitchfork crowd than a hanged, virile Lee would have been. More South-Bashing!|Michael Tomasky|May 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST The doddering quality of the entire Reagan presidency certainly gave rise to that notion. Loving France Again|Eric Alterman|April 14, 2009|DAILY BEAST Only old Japp can stick it out, and he's too old and doddering to care about moving. If, on the other hand, he has gone beyond that age we see only a doddering literary future for him. Seeing Things at Night|Heywood Broun
These doddering fools should serve him, thinking the while that they served themselves. The Adventures of Kathlyn|Harold MacGrath Verena was a poor old widow, doddering and shiftless: Charity suspected that she came for her keep. Children like this girl are amusing, but only unsophisticated boys and doddering old men fall in love with them. Frank Merriwell's Son|Burt L. Standish
British Dictionary definitions for doddering
adjectiveshaky, feeble, or infirm, esp from old age Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to dodderingtottering, faltering, floundering, trembling, decrepit, infirm, senile, shaky, unsteady, weak, anile, dotard |