ADDLED

addled, befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly, wooly, woolly-headed, wooly-minded

(adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking; “muddleheaded ideas”; “your addled little brain”; “woolly thinking”; “woolly-headed ideas”

addled

(adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible; “an addled egg”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

addled

simple past tense and past participle of addle

Adjective

addled (comparative more addled, superlative most addled)

(of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.

Confused; mixed up.

(obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

Anagrams

• daddle

Source: Wiktionary


ADDLE

Ad"dle, n. Etym: [OE. adel, AS. adela, mud.]

1. Liquid filth; mire. [Obs.]

2. Lees; dregs. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

Ad"dle, a.

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

Ad"dle, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Addled; p. pr. & vb. n. Addling.]

Definition: To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.

Ad"dle, v. t. & i. Etym: [OE. adlen, adilen, to gain, acquire; prob. fr. Icel. ö\'eblask to acquire property, akin to othal property. Cf. Allodial.]

1. To earn by labor. [Prov. Eng.] Forby.

2. To thrive or grow; to ripen. [Prov. Eng.] Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. Tusser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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