Usually means: Feeble, shaky due to age.
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  1. doddering: Merriam-Webster
  2. doddering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. doddering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. doddering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Doddering, doddering: Wordnik
  6. doddering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. doddering: Wiktionary
  8. doddering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. doddering: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. doddering: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. doddering: Dictionary.com
  12. doddering: Rhymezone
  13. doddering: FreeDictionary.org
  14. doddering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. doddering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. doddering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. doddering: Encyclopedia

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  1. doddering: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile
▸ noun:  A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.

Similar:
gaga, doddery, senile, old, doting, doited, senescent, elderly, codgerly, presenile, more...

Opposite:
spry, agile, nimble, vigorous

Types:
feeble, decrepit, enfeebled, debilitated, infirm, more...

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Similar:
gaga, doddery, senile, old, doting, doited, senescent, elderly, codgerly, presenile, more...

Opposite:
spry, agile, nimble, vigorous

Types:
feeble, decrepit, enfeebled, debilitated, infirm, more...



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