doddard

词形变化

doddards 复数 doddards

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A frail old man.

  2. 2.

    A moribund or decayed tree.

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词源

Possibly from dodder (“to shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age”) + -ard. The Scottish National Dictionary, a Scots dictionary, defining doddard as “A foolish old man, a dotard”, and providing an 1823 quotation, gives the etymology as either a variant of dotard, comparing Early Modern English dodart, or perhaps related to doddered, with spelling influenced by dotard.

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