DODDERED

  

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DODDERED

Definition: DODDERED

DODDERED

Adjective

1. Shattered; infirm.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DODDERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)


Usage Frequency: DODDERED

"DODDERED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DODDERED" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DODDERED

Language Translations for "DODDERED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

разклатен (dicky, loose, shaky, wonky), с отчупен връх, немощен (bedridden, decrepit, faint, frail, infirm, shaky, unable). (various references)

   

Czech

  

třesoucí (shivery). (various references)

   

German

  

schlotterte (shivered, shivers). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ága vesztett. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

odderedday

   

Portuguese

  

arranhado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

с пораженной верхушкой. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slabašan (puny, weakly), nejak. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chocheado (dodder). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dalları kırılmış, yaşlı (aged, auld, elderly, geriatric, old, old timer, oldie, overaged, senior, senior citizen, stricken in years, tear stained, watery, well on in years), bunamış (dotard). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розхитаний (crank, cranky, haywire, lax, rattletrap, rickety), оголений (bald, bare, exposed, glabrous, naked, nude). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bị mất ngọn; bị chặt c nh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DODDERED

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cuscuta spp.. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: DODDERED

Misspellings

"DODDERED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dodderidge, dodered, Dudyrev, Modderbee, rodderpee. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DODDERED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-d-d-e-e-o-r"

-2 letters: dodder, eroded, redded, rodded.

-3 letters: dreed, erode, odder, reded.

-4 letters: deed, deer, dere, doer, dore, dree, eddo, redd, rede, redo, reed, rode.

-5 letters: dee, doe, dor, ere, odd, ode, ore, red, ree, rod, roe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DODDERED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 4F 44 44 45 52 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ---    -..    -..    .    .-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001111 01000100 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#68 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0044 0044 0045 0052 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3849383839523938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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