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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



... almost out of recognition to suit a particular occasion, and a few minutes later, for a dramatic purpose, it may be stated in all its original plainness. I advise all who wish to understand Tristan not to fret themselves with those rascally and stupid guide books which merely addle the brain with their interminable lists of motives. Throughout the opera new matter is continually introduced, with old themes, changed or unchanged, woven into the tissue; and to go hunting for these old themes, ...
— Wagner • John F. Runciman
... have a superstition which bears some resemblance to the evil eye, when allowance is made for circumstances. They have no brilliant sun and moon to addle the brain and poison the eye, but the grey north has its marshes, and fenny ground, and fetid mists, which produce agues, low fevers, and moping madness, and are as fatal to cattle as to man. Such disorders are attributed to ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... 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 this bisness, than stand a-preachin' there ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... and calm determination. I have heard that he had a little trouble at first, through an injurious report spread amongst the men immediately before he undertook the management. Some person previously employed upon the ground had "set it eawt that there wur a chap comin' that would make 'em addle a hauve-a-creawn a day for their shillin'." Of course this increased the difficulty of his position; but he seems to have fought handsomely through all that sort of thing. I had met him for a few minutes once before, so there ...
— Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine • Edwin Waugh
... burst of candor). Since I've known you I do not think so hard on Puritans. (Half- wistfully.) I wish—I wish I had your arts and knew wise household ways. I fear we be but addle-pates at Merrymount. I cannot brew ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay


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