Addle

Word ADDLE
Character 5
Hyphenation ad dle
Pronunciations /ˈæ.dəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Addle"

What do we mean by addle?

To cause (someone) to think unclearly; confuse: synonym: befuddle. intransitive verb

To become confused. intransitive verb

To become rotten, as an egg. intransitive verb

Laborers' wages. noun

Liquid filth; putrid urine or mire; the drainage from a dunghill. noun

The dry lees of wine. Bailey; Ash. noun

Same as attle. noun

Having lost the power of development and become rotten; putrid: applied to eggs. Hence Empty; idle; vain; barren; producing nothing; muddled, confused, as the head or brain.

To make corrupt or putrid, as eggs.

Hence To spoil; make worthless or ineffective; muddle; confuse: as, to addle the brain, or a piece of work.

To manure with liquid.

To become addled, as an egg; hence, to come to nought; be spoiled.

To earn; accumulate gradually, as money.

To produce or yield fruit; ripen.

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

Liquid filth; mire. noun

Lees; dregs. noun

To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle. verb

To earn by labor. verb

To thrive or grow; to ripen. verb

(provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.

(provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

To be confused and under severe pressure while on the sesh Urban Dictionary

Nothing to be said.....cultural icon of today Urban Dictionary

To show affliction with ADD/ADHD Urban Dictionary

Drug Addled (noun): When a person is using numerous drugs, too many to categorize into a certain name (I.E. Junkie, Coke Head, Lush, Pot Head Etc.) Urban Dictionary

The state of a man when he can't think straight due to the close proximity of a male or female sex object. Urban Dictionary

1. signifies the state of a man when he is distracted by an object of sexual attraction. 2. the word is also used to describe men in general. Testosterone tends to dull things like morals and values. The truly dick-addled male changes these depending upon the needs of his dick. The only cure for this is death by syphilis, which, coincidentally is how many dick addled men expire. Urban Dictionary

Where you are so tired you can barely form sentence and usually talk offense to anything anyone says. Urban Dictionary

A rather unfriendly way to call someone an idiot. Urban Dictionary

A foolish man. (see Cove, Addle-pate) Urban Dictionary

(of a person) mentally mixed-up or confused due to regular exposure to, and the blind acceptance of, the largely incoherent and factually empty ramblings of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump or his close advisors (i.e.- Kelly Anne Conway) . Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Addle

The word "addle" in example sentences

One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with. ❋ David Berry / [email protected] (2010)

We’m kind of addle-headed and over-set, one way and ’tother, and can’t seem to take to any notion.” ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1956)

She mentions the case of the four addle-brained arses who tried to win the legal right to burn library books they personally deemed offensive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are still more addle-brained softballs to come: ❋ Larry Womack (2010)

At such moments I find it well to turn to the testimony of other men to prove to myself that I am not becoming over-wrought and addle-pated. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"It will never go out of print between addle-brained English teachers who assign it and self-absorbed teens who buy it." ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu agreed and messaged back it was probably just “planted intelligence of the enemy designed to addle us,” but he ordered his embassies to check it out further. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

We still had a big pay-day coming to us, and for thirty-seven days, without a drink to addle our mental processes, we incessantly planned the spending of our money. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Balatta and Vngngn - the latter the addle-headed young chief who was ruled by Ngurn, and who, whispered intrigue had it, was the son of Ngurn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His defenders, which are a gaggle of addle-minded cretins, among whom are names I would have never thought capable of defending a morally bankrupted individual like Polanski, have circled the wagons as if he's being hunted down by the Gestapo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He had not exactly crushed the man's head like an egg-shell, but the blow had been sufficient to addle what was inside, and, after being sick for a week, the man had died. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear - headed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It may shock fans of Anna Nicole Smith, but the only people comparing her to Marilyn Monroe were addle-brained entertainment reporters and obsessed bloggers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[I am] “[addled]” out [my mind] ❋ Hazeldick (2021)

He is [just] [addle] [clam] ❋ Your Fan Club (2004)

[I am] so addled [right now] ❋ Jake Jacobs (2004)

[Suzanne] was always drug addled because she was a [lonely] [bitter] person. ❋ Breayle (2007)

X is [totally] dick addled [since] [meeting] Y ❋ Neytene (2005)

Sorry [sweety], [Daddy's] a bit dick-addled these days, go watch some tv, or play in the [trailer park]. ❋ Ney Tene (2008)

Person 1: Hey dude, wanna go watch some Netflix? Person 2: EXCUSE ME I AM TRYING TO WASH THIS [ANTIQUE SHOW] Person 1: *[snorts]* You are really [sleep addled] aren't you? ❋ Diana-Rose (2015)

That addle-coved barkeep threw me out of the [Styx] [Oarsman] just for lighting a torch!" Also a noun, as in "He's an [addle-cove]!" ❋ Zed Numar (2021)

It's only an Addle-cove what [don't vote] [Tammany]. ❋ Bob Prochko (2005)

Have to seen Bob [lately]? His Trump-addled [brain] is really taking a [toll] on his family. ❋ Bill Nada (2020)

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