DOTAGE, DOTARD
ADJECTIVES
1850 ► VEED in one’s dotage; senile → Sc.
1905 ► MATTER-FANGLED in incipient dotage; muddle-headed, confused → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► DOTED affected by dotage → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1932 ► BAIRNED in a state of dotage → Sc.
1932 ► BAIRNLY in a state of dotage → Sc.
NOUNS
1831 ► DOTARDISM dotage; foolishness
1859 ► DOTARDAGE dotage; old age
1889 ► DOTARDY dotage; old age
NOUNS, PERSON
1520 ► VELYARD a dotard; an old man → obs.
1568 ► DOTER a dotard; a person whose intellect is impaired due to old age
1596 ► PANTALOON a dotard, an old fool; an enfeebled, tottering old man → obs., contemptuous usage
1616 ► DOTANT a dotard; a person whose intellect or understanding is impaired by age→ obs.
1677 ► DOBBIE a dotard, a childish old man→ Sc. & Eng. dial.
1880 ► GAMALEERIE an old dotard; a foolish, clumsy person → Sc.
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