doddering adjective 1noun 1forms 1 adjective1 •Mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile.You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool! — 1908 noun1 •A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem. — 2001 formsdodderings