addlepated
Adjective
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Adjective
addlepated
- Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
- 1630, John Taylor (poet), “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet, London: James Boler, p. 252,
- Let euery idle addle-pated gull
- With stinking sweet Tobacco stuffe his skull.
- 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston: L.C. Page, Chapter 16, p. 169,
- “ […] I don’t really know if I’m doing right—it may make you more addle-pated than ever—but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.”
- 1989, John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: William Morrow, Chapter 9, p. 456,
- “Do you actually expect me to wander the world as if I were an addlepated bald woman escaped from the circus?” she would say.
- February 14, 2018, Charles Solomon in the LA Times, Nick Park is back in the stop-motion animation game with 'Early Man' ↗
- His best-known creations are the addlepated, cheese-loving inventor Wallace, and Gromit, his patient, intelligent dog.
- 1630, John Taylor (poet), “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco” in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet, London: James Boler, p. 252,
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