dodder

See also: Dodder

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒdə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑdɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒdə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

Verb

dodder (third-person singular simple present dodders, present participle doddering, simple past and past participle doddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 432:

     Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pages 59–60:

     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.

Derived terms

• doddard
• dodderer
• doddering (adjective)
• doddery

 

Translations

shake or tremble

• Bulgarian: треперя от слабост (treperja ot slabost)
• German: tattern (de)
• Hungarian: botorkál (hu)
• Macedonian: тре́се impf (trése)
• Maori: tārutu
• Russian: трясти́сь (ru) (trjastísʹ)
• Thai: โยกเยก (th) (yôok-yêek), สั่น (th) (sàn)

Etymology 2

From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch doder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr (viz. theories of origin). Cognate with Middle Low German doder, West Flemish dodder.

Noun

dodder (countable and uncountable, plural dodders)

1. 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 Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

Synonyms

• angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, witch's hair

Derived terms

Derived terms

• buttonbush dodder (Cuscuta cephalanthi)
• Chilean dodder (Cuscuta suaveolens or Cuscuta racemosa var. chileana)
• clover dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)
• common dodder (Cuscuta gronovii)
• compact dodder (Cuscuta compacta)
• cusp dodder (Cuscuta cuspidata)
• European dodder (Cuscuta europaea)
• field dodder (Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta pentagona)
• flax dodder (Cuscuta epilinum)
• golden dodder (Cuscuta campestris)
• greater dodder (Cuscuta europaea)
• hazel dodder (Cuscuta coryli)
• large-seeded alfalfa dodder )Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta approximata)
• laurel dodder (Cassytha spp.)
• lesser dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)
• linseed dodder (Camelina sativa)
• little-seed alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta indecora)
• rope dodder (Cuscuta glomerata)
• small-seeded alfalfa dodder (Cuscuta indecora)
• smartweed dodder (Cuscuta polygonorum)
• swamp dodder (Cuscuta gronovii)
• thyme dodder (Cuscuta epithymum)

Translations

parasitic plant (of about 100-170 species) of the genus Cuscuta

• Afrikaans: dodder
• Akkadian: 𒃢 (SILA₄ /⁠kasû⁠/) (of debated identification, possible the source of Aramaic and Arabic)
• Albanian: helmëz f, kuskutë (sq) f
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: كُشُوث m (kušūṯ), حَامُول m (ḥāmūl)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ f (kəšūṯā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: כְּשׁוּתָא f (kəšūṯā)

• Armenian: գաղձ (hy) (gaġj)
• Assamese: তেলাকুচা (telakusa)
• Breton: neud-gad, blev-diaoul
• Bulgarian: кукувича прежда f (kukuviča prežda)
• Catalan: cuscuta f, cúscuta f, cabells d'angel m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 菟 (tù), 女蘿／女萝 (zh) (nǚluó), 菟絲／菟丝 (zh) (tùsī), 蓎蒙 (tángméng)

• Coptic: ⲡⲁⲑⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ m (pathamoun)
• Czech: kokotice (cs) f
• Dutch: warkruid (nl) m
• Esperanto: kuskuto
• Finnish: humalanvieras (fi)
• French: cuscute (fr) f
• Galician: barbas de raposo (gl) f pl, moudaña f, gorga f, sirgo da raposa m
• Georgian: აბრეშუმა f (abrešuma)
• German: Seide (de) f, Teufelszwirn (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κασύτας f (kasútas), καδύτας f (kadútas) (from a single locus in Hesychios, insecure)

  Modern: κουσκούτα f (kouskoúta)

• Hebrew: כְּשׁוּת f (kəšūṯ)
• Hungarian: aranka (hu)
• Irish: clamhán m
• Italian: cuscuta f
• Japanese: 根無葛 (nenashikazura)
• Korean: 새삼 (ko) (saesam)
• Latin:

  Classical Latin: cassytas f, cassythas f, cadytas f (from a single locus in Plinius, insecure)

  Medieval Latin: cuscūta f, cuscūtha f (spread from Avicenna translations)

• Latvian: vija f
• Lithuanian: brantas m
• Maori: māwhai
• Navajo: tsiighájíłchí
• Norman: touothelle f
• Polish: kanianka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cuscuta f
• Russian: повили́ка (ru) f (povilíka)
• Slovak: kokotica f
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: cuscuta (es) f
• Swedish: nässelsnärja
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: ฝอยทอง (fɔ̌i-tɔɔng)
• Tigre: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: küsküt (tr)
• Ukrainian: повити́ця f (povytýcja)
• Volapük: kuskut
• Welsh: llindro m

Anagrams

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