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Meanings of doddering in английском

Mentally or physically infirm with age.

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Usage of doddering in английском
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He and Edgar were not doddering queens, but men of sovereign authority.
The new yorker
2
He toils as an uninspired poetry teacher and a doddering single dad.
Reuters
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I'd be a doddering old man before I got through-thirtyyears old.
Mary Wollaston
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I want you to be with me till we're old and doddering.
Funland
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Ey, and he called me 'doddering fool;' but look at him now!
The Chessmen of Mars
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I will leave this place of doddering old magi and ambitious young ones.
Arthas: rise of the lich king
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He hardly seemed the same sickly, doddering man I'd nursed back to health.
The Wise Man’s Fear
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This was no obscure state ruled by a doddering depraved prince.
The Rains Came
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Today's errand: rescue the doddering Doctor, frogmarch him into the Palace.
The system of the world
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Young Oldershaw and the doddering Hosack measure up to your standard.
Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
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He was a doddering old ass when he came to consult the oracle.
Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch
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These doddering fools should serve him, thinking the while that they served themselves.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
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The greatest picaresque since Cervantes and Diderot is thrown away in doddering schtick.
The new yorker
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I'm a doddering lunatic, incapable of thinking of anything but you.
King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays
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He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
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Say, I'll bet Flint taken that doddering idiot's pass away for writing that.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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