addle

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Liquid filth; mire. obsolete
  2. An unwise or intellectually impaired person.
动词 v.
  1. To make or become addled; to muddle or confuse.
    — to addle someone's brain
  2. To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. Northern-England
    — ADDLINGS, wages. "Poor addlings," small pay for work. "Hard addlings," money laboriously acquired. "Saving's good addling," as the well known saying, "a penny saved is a penny gained."
  3. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
    — Their eggs were addled.
  4. To thrive or grow; to ripen. Northern-England
    — Kill ivy, or else tree will addle no more.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
    — addle eggs
  2. Unfruitful or confused; muddled. broadly
    — addle brains

词形变化

more addle comparative most addle superlative addles plural addles present,singular,third-person addling participle,present addled participle,past addled past addles plural addles present,singular,third-person addling participle,present addled participle,past addled past

词汇关系

近义词
addled
衍生词
addle-brain addlebrained addlehead addleheaded addlement addleness addle pate addlepated addle-plot addlings drug-addled

词源

词源 1
From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”).
Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English addlen, adlen, probably from Old Norse ǫðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ōðal (“owndom, property”).
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