What is "dodderer"

Usage examples of "dodderer".

Then you know what he's like -- an elderly dodderer well over seventy, short-sighted, amiable, a typically absent-minded professor in every respect but one.

Jennings may be an old dodderer, but he's not an old fool: he knew these people weren't kidding, so he went at once.

Bad enough that a wife and Queen should consent to dance with multiple partners, but this might have been excused on the basis of royal obligation, had she but limited herself to greying dodderers of irreproachable character and non-existent appeal.

Everybody in Hellmouth, take away a few dodderers and sleepy tots, was in attendance.

Not a mere handful of ancient dodderers who will die within a handful of years.