dodder

The supporting cast gets to dodder about as magnified versions of Ibsen’s melodramatic figures, with Jamie Smithson a particular hoot as Hedda’s Olympian-grade nerd of a husband.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2019

And there are the plants that have strayed from their photosynthetic ways and turned to the dark side — the parasites, such as Cuscuta, or dodder.

From Nature ● Feb. 28, 2017

Note that the vines of the dodder, which has white flowers, are beige.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Lithgow's Tobias is content to dodder on the margins, but when he's forced by Agnes to assume responsibility as head of the house, he summons the necessary strength.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2014

Timothy panted, “D’eye! We can relax a bit till dodder side 0 d’tempis’ hit us.”

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Scott Ward Abernethy is obviously having a blast channeling Audrey’s sadistic-dentist boyfriend, as well as assorted cameo figures, and Robert John Biedermann dodders aptly as the shop’s cantankerous owner, Mr. Mushnik.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2019

But now and then, when she fleetingly dodders, or loses her train of thought, she becomes a poignant figure.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2017

As he dodders round his ex-wife's kitchen in west London, I wonder what that young self would have made of the man he is today.

From The Guardian ● May 21, 2010

The dodders, then, are essentially parasites, and their apparent simplicity gives them a very peculiar aspect.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 430, March 29, 1884 by Various

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.

From Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. by Caroline Hadley

Mr. Mueller only doddered around painfully and failed to satisfy Mr. Cohen.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 24, 2019

Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018

Dominic Cavendish of the Telegraph wrote that the Pythons "came, they doddered, but they conquered."

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2014

For nine days, the 61st Cannes Film festival had doddered along into a premature senility.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old Worble crooned and doddered, and feebly repeated "Picnic?"

From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes

Offstage, he was a doddering, stammering dad shuffling around rooms bustling with yapping tiny dogs urinating everywhere.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2025

With characteristic savagery, Wolff portrayed Murdoch as a doddering nonagenarian unable to parse the changes in the cable business and unwilling to accept that American conservatism’s center of gravity had shifted away from him.

From Slate ● May 15, 2024

Let Silicon Valley chase a sleek future of frictionless rectangles and orbs: Brian’s creation, Charles, is a towering, homemade shambles with gray hair and a doddering shuffle that gives the impression of a retired sheepherder.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

Morton brings a refreshing comic spryness to Lear, playing him not as a doddering old man but as a vivacious, scampering jokester who expects to be treated as the life of the party.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022

I get up, sore all over, and start doddering barefoot for home.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson