Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Addled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Addle \Ad"dle\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Addled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Addling}.]
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his
brain. ``Their eggs were addled.'' --Cowper.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
addled
adj 1: (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
2: confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
"muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly
thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: {befuddled}, {muddled},
{muzzy}, {woolly}, {wooly}, {woolly-headed}, {wooly-minded}]
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