noun
Meaning 1
A frail old man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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doddard
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noun
Meaning 2
A moribund or decayed tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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History
Etymology
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.