half-doddering

Updated: May 15, 2025

"This bird," he said, solemnly stroking its head with his hand, while the parrot turned round to him and bit at his finger with half-doddering affection "this bird is the oldest of all my birds -is it not so, Methuselah? and illustrates well in one of its aspects the superstition of these people. Yes, my friend, you are the last of a kind now otherwise extinct, are you not, mon vieux?

Grant Allen - The Great Taboo