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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
doddering (not comparable)
- mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile
1908, G K Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J W Arrowsmith, ; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 212:You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 28:She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.
Derived terms
Verb
doddering
- present participle and gerund of dodder
Noun
doddering (plural dodderings)
- A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
2001, Seth Kohn, Escape on the Silk Road, page 7:Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.