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Meanings of addle-head in English
Synonyms
Examples for "loon"
Examples for "loon"
1
Rather it used to be, before I went into the loon house.
2
A loon, Abigail had said-thoughthere were no loons in these parts.
3
A loon cried out on the lake; moths battered the stoop light.
4
The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.
5
Strange to say, a loon was once pulled up with the shad.
1
Clarkson was involved in a much publicised scuffle with a drunken birdbrain in Adelaide.
2
That birdbrain ex-wife of mine is a kidnapper.
3
A staggering 25 billion chickens are presently clucking, making them far and away the most populous birdbrain on the planet.
4
If they don't, some of the players are bigger birdbrains than we thought.
5
True, a few birdbrains insisted on attaching the superfluous "No surrender" to England's national anthem.
Usage of addle-head in English
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."