doddering

The omelette ready, we sat down at table and were silently eating, when the door was pushed open and an old woman, dressed in rags, leaning on a stick, her head doddering, her white hair hanging loosely over her wrinkled forehead, appeared on the threshold.

One night while we were away that old numskull Thornbury was doddering about the passages very late.

And all the time that she had been saying those things to him that night of their last meeting she had been engaged to another man, a fat, bald, doddering, senile fool, whose only merit was his money.

The front door was open, so we rushed in and hurried from room to room to the amazement of a doddering old manservant, who met us in the passage.

I cadged tobacco, poor cheap tobacco, from poor doddering old chaps trembling on the edge of dissolution.

And then to prepare yourself, find two doddering old ladies, and go abroad with them."

He made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided into a doddering, loose-lipped senility.

He reeled and swayed, doddering like a drunken man to keep from falling.

While the discovery of their crime seems highly possible, they face a far worse threat when compelled to perform the Boccherini quartet for Mrs Wilberforce's twittering group of doddering old friends.

-Which is not to say that all of the 'Forever Young' talents look old and doddering. Indeed, the program loves surprising and even 'shocking' viewers with how young and fit its featured seniors are, and what amazing feats they're still capable of pulling off, despite their senior status.

She'll still be raking it in while those old heads are doddering around.

But it comes with a little disappointment on behalf of Jason Thorpe (Jeeves) and Christopher Ryan (Jeeves' doddering old butler colleague Seppings).