Addled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  addled
       adj 1: (of eggs) no longer edible; "an addled egg"
       2: confused and vague; used especially of thinking;
          "muddleheaded ideas"; "your addled little brain"; "woolly
          thinking"; "woolly-headed ideas" [syn: {befuddled}, {muddled},
           {muzzy}, {woolly}, {wooly}, {woolly-headed}, {wooly-minded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "addled":
     addlebrained, addleheaded, addlepated, at a loss, baffled,
     bamboozled, beat, beclouded, beery, befuddled, bemused, besotted,
     blear-witted, blind drunk, buffaloed, cloudy, confounded,
     crapulent, crapulous, dazed, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken,
     far-gone, floored, flustered, fogged, foggy, fou, fuddlebrained,
     fuddled, full, gay, giddy, glorious, happy, hazy, in a dilemma,
     in a fog, in a muddle, in liquor, in suspense, inebriate,
     inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, jolly, licked, maudlin, mellow,
     merry, misted, misty, muddled, muddleheaded, muddybrained, muzzy,
     mystified, nappy, nonplussed, on tenterhooks, perplexed, puzzled,
     puzzleheaded, reeling, scramblebrained, shikker, sodden, sotted,
     stuck, stumped, thrown, tiddly, tipsy, under the influence