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addle-pated

addle-pated is the alternative form of addlepated.

Meaning of addlepated

Adjective

addlepated (comparative more addlepated, superlative most addlepated)

  1. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.
    • Let euery idle addle-pated gull
      With stinking sweet Tobacco stuffe his skull.1630, John Taylor, “Plutoes Proclamation concerning his Infernall pleasure for the Propagation of Tobacco”, in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet, London: James Boler, page 252

Forms of addle-pated

comparativemore addle-pated
superlativemost addle-pated

Questions about addle-pated

What is addle-pated the alternative form of?
Addle-pated is the alternative form of addlepated.

Words near addle-pated in the dictionary

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

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