Addle Definition
(by extension) Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. John Dryden.
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Origin of Addle
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Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalą (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Saterland Frisian adel "dung", Middle Low German adele "mud, liquid manure" (Dutch aal "puddle"), Old Swedish adel "urine".
From Wiktionary
From Middle English addlen, from Old English edlēan (“reward, pay-back”), edlēanian (“to reward, recompense”); or of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse ǫðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ōðal (“owndom, property”).
From Wiktionary
From Middle English adel rotten from Old English adel pool of excrement
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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