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A person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought.
loon
birdbrain
addlehead
1
What do you take me for, an
addle
-
head
?
2
There's a passage in the book that would fit half these
addle
-
headed
rhymesters.
3
I'm her clever uncle Tom; and you're her
addle
-
headed
aunt Julia.
4
What dullards, what fribbles, what
addle
-
headed
simple coxcombs!
5
My boys have been
addle
-
headed
from infancy.
6
The poor spiritless
addle
-
headed
ghost that has hitherto haunted our blue chambers is of no use to us.
7
He is a true pioneer, and therefore he is not an idle man, nor a loafer, nor a weak
addle
-
headed
tippler.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13
"You claimed you're not addle-headed."