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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



... the newcomer retorted. "Look at you both! I've heard all about your doings. This gentleman by my side has told me a few things. I'll talk to you presently, young woman. But say, is there anywhere on the face of this earth such a miserable, addle-headed lunatic as that man whom it's my misfortune to ...
— An Amiable Charlatan • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Justice, makes me the Vice my self, that only act the true duty of a Poet, and hold up the Glass for others to see their Vices in, but his Malice will not be Authentick with every one, no more than his next Addle Criticism, upon my using the word Redeemer will bear the Test; for he that will argue that that word may not be innocently spoken in Temporal Matters, because it is sometimes us'd as a Divine Attribute, will prove himself rather a Coxcomb than a Casuist: And yet for only ...
— Essays on the Stage • Thomas D'Urfey and Bossuet
... this 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 impotence of ...
— Raemaekers' Cartoons - With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers • Louis Raemaekers
... at once on my asking the above question. Stevenson roared out: 'Let Swallow man the jaw tackle, boys. One at a time, or you'll addle the gent.' ...
— The Honour of the Flag • W. Clark Russell
... many "cures" as addle wits Who know not what the ailment is! Meanwhile the patient foams and spits ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce


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