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Doddering is the adjective — and the -ing form — from : shaking a little and walking with difficulty because of old age. A doddering man is on his feet. Writers also stretch it: a doddering government is old, slow, and not really in control. That metaphor is newspaper talk. About a person, the word can feel , as if you are pointing at weakness, so be careful who you say it to. Softer words are elderly, , or unsteady. You may also meet , which means almost the same. This is not dodgy (dishonest or risky), and it is not the plant called .
老態龍鍾的、步履蹣跚的（用來形容人時，語氣有點不敬）
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。
dodderingadj
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Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.
- You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
- Treat the doddering old fool with sympathy.
dodderingnoun
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A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
- Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。