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To dodder is to walk in a weak, shaky way, usually because you are very old — small steps, a bit of , as if the body is not quite steady. You can also say someone dodders after illness, when the walk has gone unsteady. It is a vivid, verb. Used gently, it just paints the walk; thrown at a person as a joke, it can sound , as if you are smiling at their weakness. You will find it in stories more than in medical talk. A doctor would more likely say the person is unsteady or . Though actually, English has another dodder: a plant that winds around other plants. Same spelling, different older word. This entry is only the walking one. Totter feels close, but totter is any unsteady walk, not only old age.
（因年老）走路踉蹌、步履蹣跚
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Doddername
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A river in Dublin, Ireland, a tributary of the Liffey.
dodderverb詞源 1/ˈdɒdə/
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To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
- Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
- Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
doddernoun詞源 2/ˈdɒdə/
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Any of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。