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doddering en · ADJ
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(not-comparable) Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.
She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.
2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 28:Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.
1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., J. B. Lippincott & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 241:You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 212:
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dodderingly
doddering en · NOUN
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A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
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.
2001, Seth Kohn, Escape on the Silk Road, page 7:
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doddering en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of dodder