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Definition: Doddering |
DodderingAdjective1. Mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doddering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonyms: DodderingSynonyms: doddery (adj), gaga (adj), senile (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Doddering |
| English words defined with "doddering": doddery ♦ gaga ♦ senile. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | They passed back through the garden and out through the hall where the doddering porter was pinning up a notice in the frame |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Doddering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Doddering" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
doddering | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "doddering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, dotage, ramble, rambling, rant, rave, senile, senility). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | изкуфял (addle-brained, doddery, doited, doting, gaga, senile). (various references) | |
Czech | třesoucí se (quaking, unsteady). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیر (Ancient, Gray, Master, Old, Oldster, Preceptor), کودن (Backward, Birdbrain, Cockeyed, Crass, Dull, Dunce, Lug, Sappy, Slight, Slow, Unapt, Unintelligent), علیل (Bedridden, Infirm, Invalid). (various references) | |
Finnish | tutiseva. (various references) | |
French | branlant. (various references) | |
German | schlotternd. (various references) | |
Hungarian | botorkáló (stumbling). (various references) | |
Manx | er creau (quake, quivering, shuddering, tremble, trembling). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odderingday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | trêmulo (aspen, doddery, niddle-noddle, quaking, quaky, shaky, shivery, trembling, trembly, tremolo, tremulant, tremulous, unsteady). (various references) | |
Russian | нетвердый на ногах (doddery, grog, groggy). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drhtav (aspen, doddery, quaking, quaky, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, trembly, tremulant), podrhtavajući (palpitating). (various references) | |
Spanish | que mal comprende, chocho (dodderer, doting, gaga). (various references) | |
Thai | เ"ินโซเซ ("้วยความชรา). (various references) | |
Turkish | titrek (doddery, faltering, flickering, plangent, quavery, shaking, shaky, shivery, tipsy, trembling, tremulous, wavering, wavy, wobbly), sarsak (a dithering idiot, clumsy, Dickey, dicky, doddery, jerky, palsied, rocky, shaky, tottering, tottery), eli ayağı tutmayan (age-worn, crippled, doddery, feeble, stricken), bunak (demented, doddery, dotard, gaga, in second childhood, senile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | run run (doddery), run lẫy bẫy lẫy bẫy (doddery), lập cập; đi không vững (doddery), đứng không vững (doddery). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cuscuta spp.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Doddering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diddering, Dodderidge. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doddering" (pronounced dÄ"dering) |
| 5 | -Ä" d er i ng | soldering. |
| 4 | -d er i ng | bewildering, blundering, bordering, considering, embroidering, floundering, foundering, gerrymandering, hindering, laundering, maundering, meandering, murdering, ordering, pandering, philandering, plundering, pondering, powdering, reconsidering, rendering, reordering, shouldering, shuddering, smoldering, squandering, surrendering, tendering, thundering, wandering, wondering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, angering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bickering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, outnumbering, pampering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, posturing, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, reoffering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, showering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-d-e-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: dendroid. | |
-2 letters: dodgier, eroding, grinded, groined, ignored, negroid, redding, redoing, rodding. | |
-3 letters: dinero, dinged, dinger, dodder, dodged, dodger, droned, engird, eringo, girded, girned, godded, grided, ignore, ironed, nodded, nodder, reding, region, ridded, ridden, ridged, rinded, ringed, rodded. | |
-4 letters: deign, dined, diner, dinge, dingo, diode, dirge, dodge, dogie, doing, dried, droid, drone, genro, geoid, giron. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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