Doddered
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of dodder form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Of a tree, usually an oak: having lost the top or branches, especially through age and decay. not-comparable
"Your Country Friends were told another Tale; / That from the ſloaping Mountain to the Vale, / And dodder’d Oak, and all the Banks along, / Menalcas ſav’d his Fortune with a Song."
Example
More examples"Your Country Friends were told another Tale; / That from the ſloaping Mountain to the Vale, / And dodder’d Oak, and all the Banks along, / Menalcas ſav’d his Fortune with a Song."
Etymology
From dodder + -ed.
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