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Definition of Dodderer
1. Noun. One who dodders from old age and weakness.
Definition of Dodderer
1. Noun. Somebody who dodders. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dodderer
1. one that dodders [n -S] - See also: dodders
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodderer
Literary usage of Dodderer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jinny the Carrier: A Folk-comedy of Rural England by Israel Zangwill (1919)
"To face that old dodderer again would be an anti-climax. IV So swiftly did Daniel
Quarles nod again over his big Bible that by the time Jinny had got ..."
2. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1886)
"All of his descendants, many of whose surnames have been subject to changes in
spelling, among which are Doderer, dodderer, Dotterer, ..."
3. A German Hero of the Colonial Times of Pennsylvania: Or, The Life and Times by Edwin MacMinn (1886)
"Signed and sealed in the presence of CONRAD dodderer, GEORGE HUBNER, ...
CONRAD dodderer, GEORGE HUBNER, JOST BITTING. mark The seal used by the testator ..."
4. In an Unknown Prison Land: An Account of Convicts and Colonists in New by George Chetwynd Griffith (1901)
"By great good luck he struck the broad passage through the reef which leads to
the harbour of Noumea, and when HMS dodderer eventually groped her way in she ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"... I mean that it is up to the society to lay down laws, and have the line
positively defined, for the youth of eighteen and the dodderer of forty-five. ..."
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