addled ['æd(ә)ld]
adj.
腐坏的, 混乱的
addled[ adj ]- (of eggs) no longer edible
<adj.all>
an addled egg
- confused and vague; used especially of thinking
<adj.all>
muddleheaded ideas
your addled little brain
woolly thinking
woolly-headed ideas
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.
- Shirley simply is not as complex a human being as Ayckbourn's addled heroine or examined so unmercilessly as Bennett's forlorn subject.
- Sir, Your editorial 'Ring of Anxiety' (July 6) concerning the City of London's anti-terrorist traffic restrictions was pathetically addled.
- Wendy and Andy may seem a little addled, but they are stalwart as well, in their modest way.
- During office hours, the psychiatrist had conducted an affair with his very addled 30-year-old patient Melissa Roberts-Henry, a geologist.
- He addled: "It's fast and exciting!