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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1893

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DODDERED, ppl.adj.1 Feeble with age (Ags.17 1940).Sc. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv.:
Auld, duddy, wrunkl't wives or auld, feckless, doddered men.

[From Eng. dodder.]

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