doddard
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "You are too old and too exacting to be satisfied with a blank page. You would certainly prefer one upon which life has written something. It is more interesting. Young girls are only for youths and for certain brainless doddards."
- "President Roosevelt and the former King Edward collect stamps, along with thousands of others, ranging from six-year-olds to ninety-seven year old^([sic]) doddards."
- "Nelly. There are some people who enjoy Sunday. / Renny. Yes . . . the old doddards who listen to military bands in the public park."
- "Comments John Garth, critic of the San Francisco Argonaut: “When the young student leaves art school and starts his career as a producing artist, his utter contempt for those moss-backed old doddards, the Old Masters, is complete and vocal. After ten years of the heat of the struggle, he stands silent before the Old Masters and removes his hat.”"
- "Secondly, the members of the Oporto Junta were no better than inept doddards, none of whom possessed any personal prestige."
- "The doctor is interested only in getting the three old doddards out of their ruts, and that is accomplished not by Freud but by cops and robbers, romance, and sentimental complications out of Scribe and Pinero."
Etymology
Possibly from dodder (“to shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age”) + -ard. The Scottish National Dictionary, a Scots dictionary, defining doddard as “A foolish old man, a dotard”, and providing an 1823 quotation, gives the etymology as either a variant of dotard, comparing Early Modern English dodart, or perhaps related to doddered, with spelling influenced by dotard.