Dodder vs Didder - What's the difference?
dodder | didder |
To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
* 2013, , (The Childhood of Jesus) , Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta''. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family '' , recent genetic research by the (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
As a proper noun dodder
is a river in ireland, a tributary of the liffey.As a verb didder is
to rattle or shiver.dodder
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
