dotterel

noun

1. A gullible fool, especially an elderly person with impaired faculties.

   “This poor dotterel, Sir Arthur, is playing fast and loose with me.”

2. A small brown-and-black bird of species Charadrius morinellus, of the plover family.
3. (Australia, New-Zealand)Any of various small birds of Australasia thought to resemble the Eurasian dotterel.

adj

1. decayed

   “some old dotterel trees”