Associations to the word «Addle»
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Wiktionary
ADDLE, verb. (provincial) (Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. — Forby.
ADDLE, verb. (provincial) (Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
ADDLE, adjective. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid.
ADDLE, adjective. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. John Dryden.
ADDLE, adjective. Addled
ADDLE, noun. (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
ADDLE, noun. (provincial) Lees; dregs.
ADDLE, verb. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
ADDLE, verb. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
ADDLE, noun. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
ADDLE PATE, noun. (1811) A foolish or dull-witted person.
ADDLE PATES, noun. Plural of addle pate
Dictionary definition
ADDLE, verb. Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues".
ADDLE, verb. Become rotten; "addled eggs".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.