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[Lizzie Zoom]

Remember my mum using the word Dotage in reference to an elderly aunt when I was a kid. 😀

The word was often used by the adults to almost write off an elderly relative  ("she has entered her dotage" in a derogatory way), or insult a close relative. My mum I remember often arguing with my father and dropping in to the conversation ".......do you know you are entering your dotage, you silly old fool!.."   It was family entertainment at its best! 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I think dotage and dotardage are slightly different. 

[Lizzie Zoom]

I think dotage and dotardage are slightly different. 

Indeed they are Sir Tigger.  I have been hinting, strongly I thought, that your word "dotardage" is not recognised in any English dictionary, unlike dotage which I have been using!

PS What do you think dotardage means?

[Doctor Gollum]

I think dotage and dotardage are slightly different. 

Indeed they are Sir Tigger.  I have been hinting, strongly I thought, that your word "dotardage" is not recognised in any English dictionary, unlike dotage which I have been using!

PS What do you think dotardage means?

Variations on a theme...

http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?id=117679

You daft coot

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

My grandmother would refer to 'barmy old people having a second childhood'

Shoot me if I ever get like that she would say. So we did.

[Rods2]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

[Sir Tigger KC]

At last!    Someone comes along who is not in their dotardage! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

I didn't miss an E out.

He was originally STMO which is why I still use STMO.

Fortunately  I don't have the memory recollection of a dotard. Person or person(s) who can't remember that far back.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

The tipple of Sir Tigger of Dorset.......not me.

[Rods2]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

I didn't miss an E out.

He was originally STMO which is why I still use STMO.

Fortunately  I don't have the memory recollection of a dotard. Person or person(s) who can't remember that far back.

I think he doth protest too much.

[STEMO]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

I didn't miss an E out.

He was originally STMO which is why I still use STMO.

Fortunately  I don't have the memory recollection of a dotard. Person or person(s) who can't remember that far back.

Well....you carry right on, Optimist 66 

[Sir Tigger KC]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

The tipple of Sir Tigger of Dorset.......not me.

I suspect there's a few more turnips grown in Lincolnshire than Dorsetshire! 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

DOTUS it is from now on as the acronym for the US president. Of late it has applied to quite a few presidents like inbreds does to Lords and Royalty in the UK.

The classic sign of the latter is a Lord missing the letter E out of an acronym name like STMO instead of STEMO.

Better go easy on the turnip wine M'lud if you've had your 2 Sunday bottles already.

I didn't miss an E out.

He was originally STMO which is why I still use STMO.

Fortunately  I don't have the memory recollection of a dotard. Person or person(s) who can't remember that far back.

Well....you carry right on, Optimist 66 

60.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I think dotage and dotardage are slightly different. 

Indeed they are Sir Tigger.  I have been hinting, strongly I thought, that your word "dotardage" is not recognised in any English dictionary, unlike dotage which I have been using!

PS What do you think dotardage means?

Variations on a theme...

http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?id=117679

You daft coot

I still haven't had an intelligent answer as to the clear and actual definition of "dotardage", shown as that, and  where, how and when it is listed in any English dictionary??

[Doctor Gollum]

It's not in the dictionary because it is no longer in common, or even irregular, use... it is, however, a derivative of dotard originating in he 15th century.

The fact that it is recognised in thesauri but not in dictionaries tells you that much.