Dudder vs Dodder - What's the difference?
dudder | dodder |
(UK, dated) A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
To confuse or confound with noise.
To shiver or tremble; to dodder.
* Ford
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 noun dudder
is (uk|dated) a peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.As a verb dudder
is to confuse or confound with noise.As a proper noun dodder is
a river in ireland, a tributary of the liffey.dudder
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Related to dodder.Verb
(en verb)- (Jennings)
- I dudder and shake like an aspen leaf.
dodder
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(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.