doddering

A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.

Adjective

  1. Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.
    • You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool! - 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams]...
    • Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy. - 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V., J. B. Lippincott & Co., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 241:
    • She treats him not as a doddering old fool but as a man hampered in his movements by injury. - 2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 28:

Derived

dodderingly

Noun

  1. A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
    • 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. - 2001, Seth Kohn, Escape on the...

Forms

dodderings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dodder