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addle-headed

addle-headed adjective: addlepated.

Adjective

addle-headed (comparative more addle-headed, superlative most addle-headed)

  1. addlepated
    • Why, look at Wiliam now - the first time he axed me to marry him I thought to myself, 'You're slue-footed an' slack-kneed an' addle-headed, an' I wouldn't many you for a million!'1911 December 8, The Golden Gate, Fremantle, page 9, column 5

Forms of addle-headed

comparativemore addle-headed
superlativemost addle-headed

Questions about addle-headed

What does addle-headed mean?
Addle-headed means addlepated.
What part of speech is addle-headed?
Addle-headed is an adjective.

Words near addle-headed in the dictionary

  1. addle pate
  2. addle pates
  3. addle-brain
  4. addle-brained
  5. addle-brains
  6. addle-headed
  7. addle-pated
  8. addle-patedness
  9. addle-plot
  10. addle-plots
  11. addlebrain

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