addle pate
Noun
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Noun
addle pate (plural addle pates)
- (archaic, idiom) A foolish or dull-witted person.
- I tellee once again you've an addle pate o' your own! [...] Squire Nincompoop!
- 1882, Frank Lee Benedict, Miss Alderly's Law-Suit, published in Peterson's Magazine, volumes 81-82, page 443:
- Then he executed a war-dance, and at its close stepped before Crawford, regarded him for an instant, and croaked out:
- "Addle-pate! Addle-pate!"
- "Upon my word, I believe you are the foul fiend himself," muttered Mark.
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