dodderer

1. 1.

   one who dodders from old age and weakness

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Other forms of dodderer

plural

dodderers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dodderer

What does dodderer mean?

dodderer means "one who dodders from old age and weakness".

How many syllables are in dodderer?

dodderer has 3 syllables: dod-de-rer. The stress falls on "dod".

Is dodderer a common word?

dodderer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.