dodder
verb
[ ˈdɒdə ]
• move in a feeble or unsteady way, especially because of old age.
• "an elderly couple gave us a concerned glance as they doddered past"
Similar:
totter,
teeter,
toddle,
hobble,
shuffle,
shamble,
falter,
walk haltingly,
walk with difficulty,
move falteringly,
stumble,
stagger,
sway,
lurch,
reel,
wobble,
shake,
tremble,
quiver,
hirple,
doddle,
tottering,
tottery,
teetering,
doddery,
staggering,
shuffling,
shambling,
faltering,
shaking,
shaky,
unsteady,
wobbly,
wobbling,
trembling,
trembly,
quivering,
feeble,
frail,
weak,
weakly,
infirm,
decrepit,
aged,
old,
elderly,
long in the tooth,
in one's dotage,
senile,
Origin:
early 17th century: variant of obsolete dialect dadder ; related to dither.
dodder
noun
• a widely distributed parasitic climbing plant of the convolvulus family, with leafless threadlike stems that are attached to the host plant by means of suckers.
Origin:
Middle English: related to Middle Low German doder, dodder, Middle High German toter .
