Dotard

Definition: Dotard

Dotard

Noun

1. An oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect.

Date "dotard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fool	Dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean, henhussy.
Veteran	Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dotard

English words defined with "dotard": Dotant, Dotehead, Doter, Dotery. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dotard": Head Shaved ♦ Ignaro. (references)

Etymologies containing "dotard": Dotant, Dotehead. (references)

"Dotard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dotard" is used about 4 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
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

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.

Language		Translations for "dotard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		matuf. (various references)

Arabic		‏الخرف, ‏شخص خرف. (various references)

Bulgarian		изкуфял старец, изглупял. (various references)

Finnish		vanha höperö (old fool). (various references)

German		seniler Mensch. (various references)

Greek		ξεμωραμένοσ (gaga). (various references)

Hungarian		szenilis fazon. (various references)

Italian		vecchio rimbambito. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		死に損ない (a person who has escaped death). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しにぞ�"ない (a person who has escaped death). (various references)

Manx		fer 'sy chenn lambaanid, branlaader (daydreamer, raver). (various references)

Pig Latin		otardday

Portuguese		tonto (crazy, dizzy, dotty, gaby, giddy, light-headed, moony, spellbound, tipsy), caquético (doited). (various references)

Romanian		bãtrân senil. (various references)

Russian		старый дурак. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		senilna osoba, senilan (doited, senile). (various references)

Spanish		viejo loco, viejo chocho. (various references)

Swedish		senil person. (various references)

Turkish		moruk (baggage, gaffer, gaga, geezer, old bag, pops), bunamış (doddered), bunak (demented, doddering, doddery, gaga, in second childhood, senile). (various references)

Ukrainian		старий дурень, одряхлілий (decrepit). (various references)

Vietnamese		người lẫn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dotard": dotardly, dotards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dotard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dataid, datar, ditra, dodar, dolard, Domaru, dotare, dothaidh, Dothard, dottora, Doyard, Drotar, Drouard, dutar, Dutra, Fozard, Mottard, Otard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: tardo.
	-2 letters: dado, dart, dato, doat, drat, orad, rato, road, rota, taro, toad, tora, trad, trod.
	-3 letters: add, ado, art, dad, dor, dot, oar, oat, odd, ora, ort, rad, rat, rod, rot, tad, tao, tar, tod, tor.
	-4 letters: ad, ar, at, do, od, or, ta, to.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: dotards.
	+2 letters: additory, adductor, dotardly, outdared.
	+3 letters: adductors, dartboard, decorated, dedicator, deodorant, derogated, downdraft, foredated, leotarded, moderated, mordanted, outtraded, readopted, roadstead.
	+4 letters: dartboards, dedicators, dedicatory, dehydrator, deodorants, depredator, discordant, downdrafts, motorcaded, outdragged, outdreamed, overtraded, preadopted, ritardando, roadsteads.
	+5 letters: adjudicator, bladderwort, broadcasted, coldhearted, coordinated, degradation, dehydration, dehydrators, demodulator, depredation, depredators, depredatory, downhearted, dreadnought, edulcorated, fluoridated, goddaughter, godfathered, hardmouthed, nonstandard, redecorated, retrograded, ritardandos, rodomontade, shorthanded, stadtholder, starboarded, undecorated.
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