doddered

[ dod-erd ]

adjective

1. infirm; feeble.
2. (of a tree) having lost most of its branches owing to decay or age.

Word History and Origins

Origin of doddered¹

First recorded in 1690–1700; dodder ¹ + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.

From The New Yorker

Each Tuesday and Thursday, I doddered around a facility crammed with post-hip-replacement septuagenarians and spent a lot of time trying to touch my toes.

From Washington Post

Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."

From Los Angeles Times

The slow slugs crawl among their graves where creep The doddered poison-vines.

From Project Gutenberg

Well—it was you that doddered away from them, to talk about Voltaire's bogy.

From Project Gutenberg