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doddering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
doddering
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Couldn't get round that doddering old snail.
▪ He pretended to his family and friends that his doddering gait was due to old soccer injuries.
▪ I had expected Gillis to be long since dead or at best a doddering ninety-year-old.
▪ I was particularly amused by Anthony Dowell's cameo as the doddering Emperor, complete with gilded wheelchair.
▪ The cab journey downtown was an anguish of effort, of clogged and doddering crisis.
▪ Why add them, with their evocation of the doddering loon, slumped, with listless ear-trumpet, over the board table?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
doddering

doddering \doddering\ adj.

  1. shaking as from old age.

    Syn: doddery, shaking, tottering, tottery.

  2. mentally or physically infirm with age.

    Syn: gaga, senile.

Wiktionary
doddering

  1. mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile n. A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age. v

  2. (present participle of dodder English)

WordNet
doddering

adj. mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" [syn: doddery, gaga, senile]

Usage examples of "doddering".

Perhaps he'd still be doddering around at the end of time, perched on the arid edge of eternity, the tails of his faded frock coat flapping around his legs in the buffeting winds as the universe finally wound to a stop.

They'd somehow managed to keep the window open into your particular time and locale, actually getting some video footage of you and your wife doddering around the wooden sidewalks of Omaha" \ \ \ "I know," Doc replied quietly.

I can see myself, doddering and silver-haired, dandling some little lad on my arthritic knee, and telling him, 'Amos, when your grandfather and I took an all-expenses paid vacation in the Ages of Chaos, I pretended to be his mistress.

Why should he trust this doddering ancient, or even his beloveda half-trained woman with an enigmatic tool of power branded into her in the overworld?

There was old King Shrewd, doddering and thin, nodding off over his dinner, or making vague and smiling conversation to no one in particular.

Regal judged Shrewd to be but a doddering helpless old man, useful as a puppet perhaps, but harmless enough.

He had a stick, yes, and his left leg was stiff about the knee, but Blayze's brother moved like no doddering invalid.