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dodderer noun[ C ] mainly UKuk /ˈdɒd.ər.ər/ us /ˈdɑː.dɚ.ɚ/ someone who moves around slowly and weakly, as if they might fall, especially because of being very old: (尤指因为年老而)蹒跚行走的人 When he talks to sixth-formers, he starts off by saying that they probably think he's a dusty old dodderer.当他与中学六年级的学生交谈时,他一开始就说,他们可能认为他是一个满身灰尘、颤颤巍巍的老头。 They portrayed him as an old dodderer who had lost his memory. The Prince's tutor is a sweet-tempered old dodderer. Lear makes his entrance hobbling painfully forward on a stick like some senile and decrepit dodderer. Will we become a nation of dodderers? That depends on how we age. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Moving unsteadily or with difficulty blunder bumble dodder doddery falter favour halting inflexibly limp lollop lumber lumpily lurch teeter toddle toil totter tottering trundle tumble |