dotard

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1)  An old person with impaired intellect; one in their dotage.
 * 2) * 1867,, "The Precocious Baby," The 'Bab' Ballads, Complete Edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, no date, p. 73,
 * He 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!
 * 1)  One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.
 * 1) * 1867,, "The Precocious Baby," The 'Bab' Ballads, Complete Edition, Philadelphia: David McKay, no date, p. 73,
 * He 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!
 * 1)  One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.
 * He 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!
 * 1)  One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.
 * 1)  One who dotes on another, showing excessive fondness; a doter.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: изкуфял старец
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto: kadukulo
 * Finnish:, höppänä
 * French:
 * German: Seniler, Senile
 * Hungarian:, vén szivar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, 늙다리미치광이
 * Norman: r'doteux
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ramol
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ста́рый дура́к
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: ulyanin

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A ; someone who displays senility.
 * 2) * 14th C.,, , "The Wife of Bath's Prologue," lines 285-92,
 * "enm"

- Thou 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.


 * 1) A fool or simpleton; someone who displays stupidity.