ADJ.
old, poor
DOTTEREL + NOUN
arthur, sir, trees
noun
A gullible fool, especially an elderly person with impaired faculties.
This poor dotterel, Sir Arthur, is playing fast and loose with me.
A small brown-and-black bird of species Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family.
Any of various small birds of Australasia thought to resemble the Eurasian dotterel.
adj
decayed
some old dotterel trees
noun — rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia