different between dodder vs didder

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English daderen (“to quake, 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.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 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

• dodderer
• doddering (adjective)
• doddery

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch *dôder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr.

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

• 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

Anagrams

• rodded

English

Etymology

From Middle English didderen (“to tremble”).

Verb

didder (third-person singular simple present didders, present participle diddering, simple past and past participle diddered)

1. (dialect, intransitive) To rattle or shiver.

Derived terms

• dither

Anagrams

• ridded