[
US
/ˈdɑdɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /dˈɒdəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɒdəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
mentally or physically infirm with age
his mother was doddering and frail
How To Use doddering In A Sentence
- He's like a doddering old man sitting in his horse and buggy, shaking his liver spot covered fist at passing automobiles.
- He was an auld, doddering man, a maffling, feckless auld doit.
- So unless the lass had an unhealthy taste for doddering old buffers like you and me, my theory's up the spout.
- Perhaps in her doddering senility, she was subconsciously confusing it with all the dry sherry she was knocking back.
- She's rented a villa, and she's invited her doddering old parent. SURE OF YOU
- It is sixty years since the fall of the Third Reich, and the hunted monster is now a pathetic and doddering old man in his nineties.
- That's because you're a doddering old recluse who doesn't get out of the house nearly half as much as is good for you.
- I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution. CHAPTER XIII
- Alas, i still don't know how anyone can vote for that doddering old malapropist .... Poll: Obama Narrowly Ahead In Virginia
- The fact that the leader of the free world used to be a doddering old guy completely out of touch with reality seems more cute than menacing these days.