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betwaddled

betwaddled is the alternative spelling of betwattled.

betwaddled is the simple past and past participle of betwaddle.

Meaning of betwattled

Adjective

betwattled (comparative more betwattled, superlative most betwattled)

  1. (West-Country, archaic) surprised, confounded, befuddled, to be in a distressed state of mind.
    • But everybody—except Anwara, who was plainly betwattled—admitted the child was strange.2007, Eloise McGraw, The Moorchild, page 39

Forms of betwaddled

comparativemore betwaddled
superlativemost betwaddled

Questions about betwaddled

What is betwaddled the alternative spelling of?
Betwaddled is the alternative spelling of betwattled.

Words near betwaddled in the dictionary

  1. betusked
  2. betuxed
  3. betuxedoed
  4. betw.
  5. betwaddle
  6. betwaddled
  7. betwaddles
  8. betwaddling
  9. betwattle
  10. betwattled
  11. betwattles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betwaddled (page history and authors); betwattled (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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