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In some senses, addled is marked as figuratively, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
addled
/ˈæ.dəld/
adj 3
Collocations
4VERB + ADDLED
sitting
ADDLED + NOUN
egg, eggs
PREP.
on
ADV.
ever
Definitions
adj
1
Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach.
I haven’t a bit o’ patience with you—sitting on an addled egg for ever, as if there was never a fresh un in the world.
2
Confused; mixed up.
coke-addled
crack-addled
3
Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.
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Idioms & Phrases
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He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach
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I haven’t a bit o’ patience with you—sitting on an addled egg for ever, as if there was never a fresh un in the world.
Wiktionary03
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg, / We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg,
Wiktionary04
I'm old, but my brain is not that addled yet.
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