doddering — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.

   用法

   • not-comparable

   例文

   You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!

   Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.

   その他の例文 (1)

   She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury.

名詞

1. A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.

形容詞

1. mentally or physically infirm with age

   同義語

   dodderygagasenile

   例文

   his mother was doddering and frail