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Addle   /ˈædəl/   Listen
noun
Addle  n.  
1.
Liquid filth; mire. (Obs.)
2.
Lees; dregs. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Addle  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. addled; pres. part. addling)  To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled."


Addle  v. t. & v. i.  
1.
To earn by labor. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To thrive or grow; to ripen. (Prov. Eng.) "Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more."


adjective
Addle  adj.  Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.





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"Addle" Quotes from Famous Books



... as a new trick; but as no time was to be lost, he sent a corporal's guard to the fort, and there discovered an Irish sergeant by the name of Kilsey, who had sworn an oath that if every other man in the fort ran away like a lot of addle-pated sheep, he would not run with them; he would stand to his post to the last, and when the couple of ships outside had got through bombarding the stout walls of the fort, the world would see that there was at least one British soldier who was not afraid of a ...
— The Great War Syndicate • Frank Stockton
... campaign of murder is typified by making Von Tirpitz, its inventor, an addle-headed seahorse, the nursery comedian of the sea. Stupid and ridiculous bewilderment stares from his foolish eyes. Another submarine has failed to find a safe victim in a trading ship, but has been hoisted with its own sea petard. The ...
— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers
... said at once. "And ye needn't to tell us nothin' more, George. We know the yarn you are about to tell us. An' d'ye think we're goin' to believe any addle-pated scalliwag such as my Hervey, agin' you? Smuggler you may be, but that you've sunk to killin' human flesh not even a minister o' the Gospel's goin' to convince me. Here, I respects the man I give my hand to. Shake me by the hand, George—shake me by the hand." ...
— The Hound From The North • Ridgwell Cullum
... such a addle-headed old creetur!' exclaimed Sam irritably; 'Old Baileys, and Solvent Courts, and alleybis, and ev'ry species o' gammon alvays a-runnin' through his brain. You'd better get your out o' door clothes on, and come to town about ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... nothing of the kind," returned Mr. Liddell, in a weak, hoarse, impatient voice. "I saw him once, and I know him; he is an ignorant, addle-pated jackanapes. He shall not muddle my affairs; send him away; I can wait for Newton. I don't suppose I am ...
— A Crooked Path - A Novel • Mrs. Alexander


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