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adjective

doddering adj.

Shaking as from old age.

Synonyms: doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery.

Mentally or physically infirm with age.

Synonyms: gaga, senile.

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Etymology of 'Doddering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Doddering" Quotes from Famous Books

... phrases flung at him had been barbed and had bitten deep into Casey Ryan's self-esteem. They stung and rankled there. He had squirmed at the picture his new friend had so ruthlessly drawn with crude words, but bold, of doddering old age. Casey resented the implication that he might one day fill ...

— The Trail of the White Mule • B. M. Bower

... angrily. "Oh, shut up, you doddering old fool!" he shouted. "Look; there's another of them!" he told the trustees. "Another deadhead on the faculty that this Tenure Law keeps me from getting rid of. He's as bad as Chalmers, himself. You just heard ...

— The Edge of the Knife • Henry Beam Piper

... sweeter than the echo of a flute. At early morning there came a rapping on the stairway, to summon him to breakfast. Old Jasper, with his hot hands in his pockets and with a sick expression of countenance was doddering ...

— Old Ebenezer • Opie Read

... of me, if I live long enough," groaned O'Dowd. "It beats the deuce how childer as young as they are can have discovered what a doddering fool their uncle is. Bedad, the smallest of them knows it. The very instant I pretend to be a sensible, provident, middle-aged gentleman he shows me up most shamelessly. 'Twas only a couple of months ago that his confounded blandishments ...

— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon

... up to Claire. He had thought her straight. And all the time that she had been saying those things to him that night of their last meeting she had been engaged to another man, a fat, bald, doddering, senile fool, whose only merit was his money. Scarcely a fair description of Mr Pickering, but in a man in Bill's position a ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

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