addlepate

See also: addle pate

English

Noun

addlepate (plural addlepates)

  1. Alternative form of addle pate.
    • 2023, Flora Annie Webster Steel, English Fairy Tales (page 23)
      So one day he told his mother he must be off, and she called him an airbrained addlepate, but added that, as he was no use at home, he had better go seek his fortune.

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