Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
- noun One who dotes; one who bestows excessive fondness or liking: with on or upon.
- noun One who is excessively or weakly in love.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who dotes; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; a dotard.
- noun One excessively fond, or weak in love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
dotes ; a man whose understanding is enfeebled by age; adotard .
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Examples
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What should a bald fellow do with a comb, a dumb doter with a pipe, a blind man with a looking-glass, and thou with such a wife?
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Pour rsourdre le problme de matriel, le Gouvernement Burkinab a essay de doter chaque province d'un matriel de base simple tel que tamis, casserole, filtre eau etc ... pour leur permettre de raliser quelques recettes simples.
Chapter 7 1991
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Albert nothing to him, and might be marrying Miss Simpson, my ladyship's doter, if he wasn't so fullish as to be marrying your Netta! '
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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Ill set him up in a shop; or order my portrait of him, you know; or speak to my cousin, the Bishopand Ill doter Becky, and well have a wedding, Briggs, and you shall make the breakfast, and be a bridesmaid.
XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917
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I mind goin 'to the weddin', an 'she brought en no more'n her clothes an' herself inside of 'em: an 'now she've a-buried th' old doter, an 'sits up at
Corporal Sam and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The handsomest of them all is the "ranger," as the young doter is called.
Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Dillon Wallace 1901
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There are five varieties of them, the largest of which is the hood seal and the smallest the doter or harbour seal.
Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale Dillon Wallace 1901
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A righte straunge mixing truly of mighty blode with mean, ye more in especial since ye queenes grace was present, as likewise these following, to wit: Ye Duchess of Bilgewater, twenty-two yeres of age; ye Countesse of Granby, twenty-six; her doter, ye Lady
1601 Mark Twain 1872
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He is no recluse, no solitary student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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I'll set him up in a shop; or order my portrait of him, you know; or speak to my cousin, the Bishop and I'll doter Becky, and we'll have a wedding, Briggs, and you shall make the breakfast, and be
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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