0 to move slowly and weakly, as if you might fall, especially because of being very old:
1 a type of yellow or orange plant that lives and feeds on other plants:
In this part of town in the past, old ladies doddered about clad in dressing gown, slippers and curlers.
If living to 100 means two decades doddering around getting increasingly frail and losing my marbles, then count me out.
Nobody wants people doddering around in nursing homes, in pain and heavily medicated.
If you're swaying and doddering on the spot, a little the worse for wear, then bar staff can refuse to serve you.
The dodder has no leaves and no connection with the soil after its seeds have germinated; the roots do not develop.
Some people believe that dodder takes on the qualities of the plant it lives off, and the dodder that grows on thyme has been a favourite in European folk medicine.
It's sometimes better to sacrifice the crop rather than let the dodder go uncontrolled.
This sucker-like organ inserted into the cells of the host, through which food is withdrawn, is found in fungi and parasitic flowering plants, such as dodder.
