How to pronounce“dodder”in English
verbend of the world, but almost simultaneously. New Zealand, 1898, introduced a tax-financed, flat rate, non-contributory pension for everybody aged 65.
Why did they do that? Even then, it was a competitive international economy, and the purpose of pensions was to stop older workers doddering around the factory floor and the farmyard,
reducing the productivity of younger workers. It's me coming into your office and saying: “Can you show me how to switch on my computer?” In Germany, Otto von Bismark, the conservative
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Definitions of “dodder”
To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
“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.”
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.
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