ˈdodder-grass dial.
[f. dodder v.]
Properly, Quaking-grass, Briza media; also called doddering-grass, doddle grass, doddering dicks, etc. Sometimes loosely applied locally to species of Bromus, Festuca, Poa, or other loose-panicled grasses.
| 1617 [see dodder v. 1]. 1736 Pegge Kenticisms s.v. Dawther, A certain long shaking-grass is called dodder-grass or dawther in Kent. [App. some Bromus.] 1875 Sussex Gloss., Doddlegrass, Briza media, or quaking grass, called in the north ‘doddering dick’. 1878–86 Britten & Holland Plant-n., Dodder Grass, Briza media. Cumb.; Kent. |