dodder

present singular third person dodders · participle present doddering · participle past doddered · past doddered

1. intransitiveTo shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.

   Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.

   2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pages 59–60

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   Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.

   1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432

plural dodders

1. countableuncountableAny of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

   Synonyms: angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine

1. A river in Dublin, Ireland, a tributary of the Liffey.