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Significats de addle-head en anglès

A person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.

Sinònims
Examples for "loon"
Examples for "loon"
1
Rather it used to be, before I went into the loon house.
Mister Slaughter
2
A loon, Abigail had said-thoughthere were no loons in these parts.
In the shadow of gotham
3
A loon cried out on the lake; moths battered the stoop light.
Bag of Bones
4
The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.
The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness
5
Strange to say, a loon was once pulled up with the shad.
Nature's Serial Story
1
Clarkson was involved in a much publicised scuffle with a drunken birdbrain in Adelaide.
The Guardian
2
That birdbrain ex-wife of mine is a kidnapper.
Hard eight
3
A staggering 25 billion chickens are presently clucking, making them far and away the most populous birdbrain on the planet.
The Irish Times
4
If they don't, some of the players are bigger birdbrains than we thought.
The Guardian
5
True, a few birdbrains insisted on attaching the superfluous "No surrender" to England's national anthem.
The Guardian
Ús de addle-head en anglès
1
What do you take me for, an addle-head?
Savage
2
There's a passage in the book that would fit half these addle-headed rhymesters.
The Guardian Angel
3
I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her addle-headed aunt Julia.
No Name
4
What dullards, what fribbles, what addle-headed simple coxcombs!
Barry Lyndon
5
My boys have been addle-headed from infancy.
No Name
6
The poor spiritless addle-headed ghost that has hitherto haunted our blue chambers is of no use to us.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
7
He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak addle-headed tippler.
Minnesota and Dacotah
8
The futility of this campaign of murder is typified by making Von Tirpitz, its inventor, an addle-headed seahorse, the nursery comedian of the sea.
Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known Engl...
9
But the addle-headed police, ready to handcuff David Hume, never thought of inquiring about strangers who came and went at Stowmarket in those days.
The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate
10
Ariel touched it with an expression of anything but addle-headed Pooh-bear affection, and was about to swing him off when the cabin lurched violently.
Anvil of stars
11
For my part, I see clearly, on this theory, that either the Apostles or their commentators were the most crazy, addle-headed wretches in the world.
The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic
12
An addle-headed theorist, he was, till a woman got hold of him-oneof the other kind, you know-andgave him something practical to think about.
South Wind
13
"You claimed you're not addle-headed."
Savage