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doddery

doddery adjective: doddering, trembly, shaky.

Adjective

doddery (comparative dodderier, superlative dodderiest)

  1. Doddering, trembly, shaky.
    • 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...1994, Laurie R King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice
    • 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...1999, Terence Rattigan, Benoît Delhomme, David Mamet, The Winslow Boy

doddery meaning in Malayalam

doddery in Malayalam

tottering, tottery, staggering
വേയ്ക്കന്ന, നടക്കുമ്പോൾ വേച്ചുപോകുന്ന, വേച്ചുവേച്ചുനീങ്ങുന്ന, നടക്കുമ്പോൾ ചാഞ്ചാടുന്ന, വീഴാൻപോകുന്ന, ഇടറുന്ന

Forms of doddery

comparativedodderier
superlativedodderiest

Origin of doddery

From dodder + -y.

Words formed from doddery

Questions about doddery

What does doddery mean?
Doddery means doddering, trembly, shaky.
What is doddery in Malayalam?
Doddery in Malayalam is വേയ്ക്കന്ന, നടക്കുമ്പോൾ വേച്ചുപോകുന്ന, വേച്ചുവേച്ചുനീങ്ങുന്ന. See Doddery meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is doddery?
Doddery is an adjective.

Words near doddery in the dictionary

  1. dodderiness
  2. doddering
  3. dodderingly
  4. dodderings
  5. dodders
  6. doddery
  7. doddie
  8. doddies
  9. dodding
  10. Doddington
  11. Doddington and District

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doddery (page history and authors); doddery (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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