Thursday, September 06, 2007
Dotard
A dotard is someone in his or her dotage, of course. Now, for those who need more help, your dotage is usually that stage of life when old age and feebleness of mind coincide. I know a few dotards, but I'm too polite to name them. The invented meanings were wonderfully funny, as always. And I'm thrilled to announce that Ju's Little Sister won our hearts and votes with her invented meaning. Great work!
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A dotard is a tight fitting, elasticated item of clothing for a novice dancer. Unlike a leotard, a dotard has an inflatable crotch thus providing extra protection during those first awkward attempts at doing the splits.
Dotard (noun) archaic, Middle English The ancestor for the British expression "dotty". A dotard is a simple, perhaps slightly crazy person who is very eccentric.
(Modern) The dotty old woman wore purple flowers up her nose.
(Middle English) The wench affixed posies in her nostrils, a pure dotard!
A dotard is a specialized rubgy tackle that involves the hooker hooking the scrum half around the calf and bringing him to the ground. By doing this the largest member of the second row of the scrum is able to pick the ball up, rush off, run the length of the pitch and execute a perfect drop-kick.
A dotard is an oversized dot.
Our family has always owned flivvers and never known what to call them.
What a coincidence. Only recently have I discovered that I've been speaking prose all of my life.
A dotard is the rare leopard with freckle-like spotting.
When bits of chewed food escapes entry to the esophagus and gets trapped between the teeth, visible to everyone else but you, you have a Dotard.
Ex:
She was flashing her yellow dotard at the dinner table before excusing for the washroom.
The slovenly woman who smiled at us from the other table had a big green dotard on the incisor of her upper jaw.
Before people knew much about afterimages and visual perception, it was the word for seeing afterimages. If one had just looked at candles and looked away and saw the dark spots of after-image, or came in from the outside and saw a big black spot, they referred to it as being dotard. It took a few moments to recover.
If someone was confused or clumsy, others might say "He's dotard," meaning seeing things, or momentarily confused.
Dotard - a slovenly person who does everything at a snails pace and who's always late for appointments.Do -execute: tard -late
Dotard means incongruous person in a story or situation. It's actually a derivative of the fifth muskateer's name D'Otard. Appearing only in the rare first working draught of the story, he was left out because Dumas originally wrote him in as an incredibly irritating transvestite. Does Lily Savage spring to mind here?
Dotard is the American spelling of "doughtard", which was originally "doughtart". This was like a doughnut or a doughring, only much bigger. It was a very large and hollow piece of dough that used to be served as one of the courses at royal Medeival banquets. Old manuscripts describe how live animals and even women would burst out of the dotard, spreading chunks of food everywhere.
It was very difficult to fry the dotard whilst keeping whatever was inside alive (it was dipped in a vat and pulled out very quickly), and often several attempts had to be made.
A dotard is a person who paints pictures that consist of tiny colored dots. From a sufficient distance, the dots seem to blend together and form a natural (more or less) image.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A woman addicted to wearing polka-dotted dresses was called a dotard. For a while it almost ammounted to a fetish. Mostly found during the 1940's and 50's. Disallusioned husbands could be heard muttering under their breath
"She's SUCH a dotard!"
A dotard is someone who is tone deaf and always sings off key.
(I am a perfect example, but luckily for you all this blog site has no audio, so I am unable to demonstrate my lack of talent).
PS Thanks for giving me the vote on exsanguinate. I am now on the road to catching up with my brother who also contributes to this site on a daily basis. I bet WI didn't know she was promoting sibling rivalry....
Art students incapable of understanding the concept of or execution of pointalism are sadly referred to as dotards by their peers and disaPOINTed ( pardon the pun) instructors.
Have you ever gone down to the park to feed the ducks?
When I feed the ducks there is usually a large (I shall say - swarm) of mallard ducks desperate for the next morsal. But amongst them there is always a dotard. This is the one duck of another species somehow lost inside the wrong flock. He never gets the bread either.
ahem, excuse me please
*morsel, not morsal.
Dotard: A female deer born out of wedlock?
Sorry.
Dotards are computer illiterate. The dotcomers are the ones who can navigate the Internet, but dotpros are computer savvy.
A dotard is someone who is unaware of their own strength. Dotards do not believe that they have hurt anyone and tend to make fun of anyone who has been their victim. Dotards always give hugs too hard as well as back rubs. Their victim seems to cringe in pain while trying to fake a smile and slowly back away.
Flamingo: you are not the only one who indulges in sibling rivalry.
Maalie is my big brother. He's away at the moment watching reindeer in Lapland!
Lorenzo.
Wow, thank you for the votes everyone - my first time on wrod imperfect too! It's a wonderful site!
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