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dotard

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈdəʊ.təd/Part of speech nounSorted addortStarts with DEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an oldster in their dotage; someone whose age has impaired their intellect

Word origin

From Middle English dotard; equivalent to dote + -ard.

Used in a sentence

  • I ſpeake not like a dotard, nor a foole, As vnder priuiledge of age to bragge, What I haue done being yong, or what would doe, Were I not old, […]
  • Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields, All that the fertile valley shields; Wages of folly--baits of crime, Of life's uneasy game the stake, Playthings that keep the eyes awake Of drowsy, dotard Time;—
  • He early determined to marry and wive, For better or worse With his elderly nurse, Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive: His health didn't thrive— No longer alive, He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!

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