doddery
adjEtymology From dodder + -y.
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Doddering, trembly, shaky.
- That is not to say that he became a doddery old man — far from it. He was just a bit thoughtful at times, and I would catch him looking at me pensively...1994, Laurie R King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice:
- The old boy's so doddery now he can hardly finish the course at all. I timed him today. It took him seventy-five seconds...1999, Terence Rattigan, Benoît Delhomme, David Mamet, The Winslow Boy:
- Derived terms
- dodderiness