| 单词 | doddering |
| 释义 | doddering (once / 22386 pages) adj Doddering means "physically or mentally impaired due to old age," like a doddering person who can no longer live alone without assistance from family members or a visiting nurse. The adjective doddering comes from the Middle English word daderen "to quake, tremble." That shakiness, in movement and even in thoughts, is one quality of doddering people. It is important to be patient with those who are doddering, because like the word sounds, they are trying to still be mobile, still be part of the world around them, even if they feel more shaky as they get older. WORD FAMILYdodder: doddered, dodderer, doddering, dodders, doddery+/dodderer: dodderers USAGE EXAMPLESPhil Hartman plays Ronald Reagan as a cunning and tireless taskmaster who pretends to be an affable, doddering old man when the press is present. Washington Post(Oct 17, 2016) These are not just the doddering remnants of the Klan, though there are elements of that. Los Angeles Times(Sep 29, 2016) Also making James sound doddering: his insistence on describing the shows he loves as box sets, as if this were a meaningful category. Slate(Sep 08, 2016) adj mentally or physically infirm with age his mother was doddering and frail Syn doddery, gaga, senile old (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age |
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