See dotard on Wiktionary
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"text": "The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow; and, when the lover is not lost in the husband, the dotard a prey to childish caprices, and fond jealousies, neglects the serious duties of life, and the caresses which should excite confidence in his children are lavished on the overgrown child, his wife.",
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"ref": "2017 September 22, Kim Jong-un, quotee, “Statement of Chairman of State Affairs Commission of DPRK”, in KCNA Watch:",
"text": "Whatever [Donald J.] Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.",
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"ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, “The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed”, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC, page 58:",
"text": "The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow; and, when the lover is not lost in the husband, the dotard a prey to childish caprices, and fond jealousies, neglects the serious duties of life, and the caresses which should excite confidence in his children are lavished on the overgrown child, his wife.",
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{
"ref": "1835, William Wordsworth, “The Pass of Kirkstone”, in A Guide through the District of the Lakes:",
"text": "Lawns, houses, chattels, groves, and fields, / All that the fertile valley shields; / Wages of folly--baits of crime, / Of life's uneasy game the stake, / Playthings that keep the eyes awake / Of drowsy, dotard Time;—",
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},
{
"text": "1867, W. S. Gilbert, \"The Precocious Baby,\" The 'Bab' Ballads, Complete Edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, no date, p. 73, https://archive.org/details/babballads00gilb\nHe early determined to marry and wive, / For better or worse / With his elderly nurse, / Which the poor little boy didn't live to contrive: / His health didn't thrive— / No longer alive, / He died an enfeebled old dotard at five!"
},
{
"ref": "2017 September 22, Kim Jong-un, quotee, “Statement of Chairman of State Affairs Commission of DPRK”, in KCNA Watch:",
"text": "Whatever [Donald J.] Trump might have expected, he will face results beyond his expectation. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U. S. dotard with fire.",
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"An old person with impaired intellect; one in their dotage."
],
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"(archaic) An old person with impaired intellect; one in their dotage."
],
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"word": "mimmerkin"
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"word": "dotard"
}
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"One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter."
],
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "izkufjal starec",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "изкуфял старец"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "老糊塗"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "lǎohútu",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "老糊涂"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "kadukulo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "vanhuudenhöperö"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "höppänä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "radoteur"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"masculine"
],
"word": "Seniler"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"feminine"
],
"word": "Senile"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "trotty"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "vén szivar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bacucco"
},
{
"alt": "おいぼれ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "oibore",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "老い耄れ"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neukdari",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "늙다리"
},
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "neukdarimichigwang'i",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "늙다리미치광이"
},
{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "r'doteux"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xereft",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "خرفت"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ramol"
},
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"code": "ru",
"english": "originally: patient suffering from senile dementia",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "marazmátik",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "маразма́тик"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "stáryj durák",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "ста́рый дура́к"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chocho"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "gagá"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "old person with impaired intellect",
"word": "ulyanin"
}
],
"word": "dotard"
}
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"text": "14th C., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, \"The Wife of Bath's Prologue,\" lines 285-92, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales/The_Wife_of_Bath%27s_Prologue_and_Tale\nThou seist, that oxen, asses, hors, and houndes, / They been assayed at diverse stoundes; / Bacins, lavours, er that men hem bye, / Spones and stoles, and al swich housbondrye, / And so been pottes, clothes, and array; / But folk of wyves maken noon assay / Til they be wedded; olde dotard shrewe! / And than, seistow, we wol oure vices shewe.",
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"A dotard; someone who displays senility."
],
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"glosses": [
"A fool or simpleton; someone who displays stupidity."
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