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Maybe it's wearing plus fours, white shoes and pink shirts that addle the brain.
From the expressandstar.com
Winter is nearly here, but don't let the cold weather addle your wardrobe brain.
From the guardian.co.uk
The list of luxuries and trickeries will addle the brains of most BMW salesmen.
From the latimes.com
In the early going, the lack of pace on Wozniakci's ball seemed to addle Clijsters.
From the washingtonpost.com
Greer plays the addle-brained Lennie, a giant with the mind of a 6-year-old.
From the philly.com
Not surprisingly, he hides his newfound enterprise from his addle-pated mom.
From the usatoday.com
She has admonished the addle-pated Florida preacher to forget the Koran pyrotechnics, and stand down.
From the tunedin.blogs.time.com
Do pesticides addle the brains of bees?
From the newscientist.com
He still has the March Hare for his companion, and the pair are as delightfully feeble and addle-brained as ever.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues"
- Become rotten; "addled eggs"
- (addled) confused and vague; used especially of thinking; "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas"
- Lady Blanche Addle was a fictitious character created by the British author Mary Dunn (1900u20131958) First published in the 1930s Dunn's Lady Addle books amusingly parody and satirise the then British upper classes, and particularly the works of Walburga, Lady Paget; Daisy, Princess of Pless and Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre. It could also have mentioned Lady Sybil Grant...
- Goose egg addling is a wildlife management method of population control for Canada Geese and other bird species. ...
- (addled) Inviable. Containing a dead embryo; morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren. (obs.)^[1]; Confused; mixed up
- (addleness) The state or quality of being addle
- (addling) Causing fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell
- ("Addled") Temporary and understandable state of confusion. Often misdiagnosed and wrongly medicated.
