DOTARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dotard mean? 

• DOTARD (noun)
  The noun DOTARD has 1 sense:

1. an oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect

  Familiarity information: DOTARD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOTARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An oldster in his dotage; someone whose age has impaired his intellect

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("dotard" is a kind of...):

golden ager; old person; oldster; senior citizen (an elderly person)

Derivation:

dote (be foolish or senile due to old age)

 Context examples 

'The man, the woman and their litter'—so ran the words of the dotard bailiff.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By the three kings!” cried one, “here is an old dotard shrew to have so goodly a crutch! Use the leg that God hath given you, man, and do not bear so heavily upon the wench.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)