doiter

English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “dotard?? dodder??”)

Verb

doiter (third-person singular simple present doiters, present participle doitering, simple past and past participle doitered)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be old and infirm; to tremble in movement or ramble in speech, as in old age.
   • 1843, John Roby, Popular Traditions of Lancashire, volume 1, page 122:

     Now, save on almous-days, when some half-dozen doitering old bodies get a snatch at the broken meat, not a man of us thrusts his nose into the knight's buttery, but by stealth.

Anagrams

• dotier, editor, rioted, tie rod, tierod, triode