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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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DOD, Dodd, v.¹

1. To move slowly and unsteadily, to totter, dodder, to jog (Fif. 1808 Jam., dodd), “used to express the feeble and unsteady motion of an old person” (Jam.⁶).Sc. 1832–46 A. Crawford in Whistle-Binkie (1878) I. 398:
For at the very bit he turn'd about, And doddit hame to eat his rows and butter.Sc. 1887 Jam.⁶ s.v. dodder:
He's hardly able to dod out an' in now.Sc. 1979 Maurice Lindsay Collected Poems 35:
The auntran forces doddan abootAyr.⁹ 1949:
An auld man doddin' along the road.

2. To jig, to make jerky movements in time to music.Ayr. 1790 A. Tait Poems 135:
On thee the fiddler has his dotts, He'll sit and dod.