addlepated

English

Etymology

From addle +‎ pated.

Adjective

addlepated (comparative more addlepated, superlative most addlepated) (possessional)

  1. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
    • 1630, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet‎[1], London: James Boler, page 252:
      Let euery idle addle-pated gull
      With stinking sweet Tobacco stuffe his skull.
    • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
      Hallo father, here’s Pecksniff! He gets more addle-pated every day he lives, I do believe,’ muttered Jonas, shaking his honoured parent roundly.
    • 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 16, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909 (11th printing), →OCLC, page 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, chapter 9, in A Prayer for Owen Meany‎[2], New York: William Morrow, page 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.
    • 2018 February 14, Charles Solomon, “Nick Park is back in the stop-motion animation game with 'Early Man'”, in LA Times‎[3]:
      His best-known creations are the addlepated, cheese-loving inventor Wallace, and Gromit, his patient, intelligent dog.

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