Doddering

We shouldn't avoid the "doddering" issue for fear of inciting old people, just as we shouldn't avoid the Palin corruption and inexperience issue for fear of inciting women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You would hardly suppose that a nation "doddering" to its doom would be so lively in producing ships in this manner? ❋ Unknown (1910)

Others, again, seemed afflicted with what old Matthew Branthwaite called "doddering" and a fit of the "gapes." ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

On Smiggers 'right is a "doddering" old fellow of between seventy and eighty -- clearly ❋ Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald (1879)

It's a timeless tale that asks the question, which is better -- a love that lasts into doddering, rocking chair old age or one that burns so bright that it explodes like a supernova? ❋ Rochelle Jewel Shapiro (2011)

He's amusing in the first scenes, a silly old man sopping up praise from his daughters with unabashed pleasure, the doddering right of an old man. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

But my goodness, why should some EconoObaGuy note these things when he can beat up on some poor old doddering fool for being an old doddering fool? jeer9 Says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

We give up on our doddering memories and talk about the kids. ❋ Lisa Genova (2011)

[It certainly blows away the historical fallacy that he was a doddering old grandfather not cognizant of what was going on.] ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nor is she the woman to make me forget my manhood and pride, to tumble me down doddering at her feet and gibbering like an ape. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I already knew and enjoyed hanging out with the heroes -- Charlie, an inveterate horseplayer, and his father, Drummond, whom he'd always thought was a doddering appliance salesman but really is a CIA all-star. ❋ Keith Thomson (2011)

But setting aside the feelgood appeal of their comebacks and whether they can still cut it at the top level, this influx of aging veterans raises an awkward question for English soccer: What does it say about the Premier League's overall talent level when two players with a combined age of 71 are still doddering about at the country's leading teams? ❋ Unknown (2012)

Mr. Fénelon's quirky vocal choices have turned the doddering valet Firs into a mezzo-soprano, while the governess Charlotta is written for a bass in drag. ❋ Judy Fayard (2012)

In the final analysis, when you boil away all of the weirdness, it becomes clear that the teabaggers are pissed because there isn't yet another doddering old white guy in the White House -- like they're used to. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Liz Bruenig: my baby has [doubled] her [birth weight] in just two months, exclusively breastfeeding. proud of my two large [dodders] ❋ Loyal Reader (2019)

This paper is due in twenty minutes and this [dodder] is really [pissing me off]. my brother is a mechanic but he can be such a dodder sometimes. last week my car [broke down] and he refused to help me fix it. ❋ Saycock (2007)

[did you] see that [fucking] dodder [over there]? ❋ Kingkoopa (2013)

[yass] [dodders], slayyyyyyyy ❋ Skullcrusher69 (2022)