Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
malis .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
dodder .
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Examples
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Jimmy Stewart finally dodders onstage in a dark gray suit and dark-rimmed glasses.
AS SEEN ON TV: JIMMY STEWART Toby O'B 2010
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The politically correct exotica that crept out of the darkness to yip included hypocrites like “Fairdealphil” who shows his progressive underwear from the all white fastness of Lincolnshire where he innocently dodders.
Black Issues or White Guilt Newmania 2007
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Is Aloysius Snuffleupagus next to go because he dodders around like a dying, old animal?
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While Yeltsin dodders, Primakov dickers, pursuing a diplomatic solution to the latest crisis in the Persian Gulf and encouraging Saddam to think he can get away with defying the United Nations.
Yeltsin's War Games 2008
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You better hope all those ‘dodders’ are over 18 years of age.
Think Progress » Fox Gets ‘Fair And Balanced’ Access to Guantanamo 2006
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I yewzd tew torchur a co-workr hooz dodders allwaiz sang that theeem song by walkN pazt… just hummminit kwietliek.
CWNED!!1! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Abdication of responsibility because other people - the Trots like the dead-eyed Margaret Beckett and her old husband of 82 who dodders along on the payroll of the British taxpayer as her "personal assistant"?
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There are several kinds of dodders: some live entirely on flax, some on nettles, but those that stick to clover and furze-bushes are the most common in this country.
Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. Caroline Hadley
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The dodders, then, are essentially parasites, and their apparent simplicity gives them a very peculiar aspect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various
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Like the majority of dodders, this species is an annual, so that, as soon as the cycle of vegetation is accomplished, the plant dies after flowering and fruiting.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 Various
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