dodder
See also: Dodder
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɑdɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɒdə/
- Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Verb
dodder (third-person singular simple present dodders, present participle doddering, simple past and past participle doddered)
- (intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 432:
- 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.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
- 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.
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Derived terms
- dodderer
- doddering (adjective)
- doddery
Translations
shake or tremble
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Etymology 2
From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with Middle Low German doder, West Flemish dodder.
Noun
dodder (countable and uncountable, plural dodders)
- 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.
Synonyms
- angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, witch's hair
Derived terms
Derived terms
- buttonbush dodder (Cuscuta cephalanthi)
- Chilean dodder (Cuscuta suaveolens or Cuscuta racemosa var. chileana)
- clover dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)
- common dodder (Cuscuta gronovii)
- compact dodder (Cuscuta compacta)
- cusp dodder (Cuscuta cuspidata)
- European dodder (Cuscuta europaea)
- field dodder (Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta pentagona)
- flax dodder (Cuscuta epilinum)
- golden dodder (Cuscuta campestris)
- greater dodder (Cuscuta europaea)
- hazel dodder (Cuscuta coryli)
- large-seeded alfalfa dodder )Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta approximata)
- laurel dodder (Cassytha spp.)
- lesser dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)
- linseed dodder (Camelina sativa)
- little-seed alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta indecora)
- rope dodder (Cuscuta glomerata)
- small-seeded alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta indecora)
- smartweed dodder (Cuscuta polygonorum)
- swamp dodder (Cuscuta gronovii)
- thyme dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)
Translations
parasitic plant (of about 100-170 species) of the genus Cuscuta
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Anagrams
- rodded