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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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dodder1 (ˈdɒdə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to move unsteadily; totter |
| 2. | to shake or tremble, as from age |
| [C17: variant of earlier dadder; related to Norwegian dudra to tremble] | |
| 'dodderer1 | |
| —n | |
| 'doddery1 | |
| —adj | |
| dodder2 (ˈdɒdə) | |
| —n | |
| any rootless parasitic plant of the convolvulaceous genus Cuscuta, lacking chlorophyll and having slender twining stems with suckers for drawing nourishment from the host plant, scalelike leaves, and whitish flowers | |
| [C13: of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dodder, Middle High German toter] | |
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Word Origin & History
dodder
1610s, from M.E. daderen "to quake, tremble" (late 15c.), apparently frequentative of dialectal dade, on a form similar to totter, patter. Related: Doddering.
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