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Etymology
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Verb
doiter (third-person singular simple present doiters, present participle doitering, simple past and past participle doitered)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be old and infirm; to tremble in movement or ramble in speech, as in old age.
1843, John Roby, Popular Traditions of Lancashire, volume 1, page 122:Now, save on almous-days, when some half-dozen doitering old bodies get a snatch at the broken meat, not a man of us thrusts his nose into the knight's buttery, but by stealth.
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