Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Botany Lacking the top branches as a result of age or decay.
- adjective Infirm; feeble.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Overgrown with dodder; covered with parasitic plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Shattered; infirm.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
dodder .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Some comprimario and secondo roles were doubled up: Vladimir Hristov was both a George Clooney-suave Marchese d'Obigny and a bland Dr. Grenvil; Giorgio Dinev, previously seen enjoyably blustering as Tosca's Spoletta, doddered formulaically as Violetta's servant, but had mischevious sparkle as Gastone — having introduced his friend Alfredo to Violetta, he worked the room, pointing out his handiwork to the other guests, a proud yenta.
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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'Well I'm a creationist and I hope you fail,' he said with some vehemence and doddered off without a word of thanks.
The Beagle Project on the BBC and cut dead by creationists on a train. 2008
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An elderly woman doddered out of a back room with a walker.
Archive 2008-11-01 N A 2008
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An elderly woman doddered out of a back room with a walker.
ELECTION! N A 2008
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But the sight is no ways strange, young man; when the summer fades into autumn, and moonlight nights are long, and roads become unsafe, you will see a cluster of ten, ay of twenty such acorns, hanging on that old doddered oak. —
Quentin Durward 2008
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The head librarian, who could have posed for Norman Rockwell, doddered about the place fluffing up the books and tidying the shelves.
1 800 GOA WAYY Miss Snark 2005
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Yet Martin approved the shadow on his path: he found a charm in the spectral aspect of the doddered oak.
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With a faint deprecatory chuckle, as if to say that he would have enjoyed this had life put him in the habit of enjoying anything, Merlin doddered away to the back of his shop where his treasures were kept, to get this latest investment which he had picked up rather cheaply at the sale of a big collection.
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The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants.
Villette 2003
fbharjo commented on the word doddered
damaged ramage
August 8, 2010