doddery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English

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"That is not to say that he became a doddery old man — far from it. He was just a bit thoughtful at times, and I would catch him looking at me pensively..."
"The old boy's so doddery now he can hardly finish the course at all. I timed him today. It took him seventy-five seconds..."

Etymology tree English dodder Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English doddery From dodder + -y.

dodderier (comparative) dodderiest (superlative)

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