Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stupid person.
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Examples
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They ordered me on, and I couldn't turn for a street car coming, so I called to one of them that the girl we wanted was down the street, and he looked at me like an addle-pate and said, ` What girl?
The Harvester 1911
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They ordered me on, and I couldn't turn for a street car coming, so I called to one of them that the girl we wanted was down the street, and he looked at me like an addle-pate and said, 'What girl?
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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I wouldn't mind going on a voyage with the madam and the young ones, but not with such an addle-pate as the near-sighted.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878
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I saw him with my own eyes last night skulking past the wicket-gate; and the girl's addle-pate is completely turned.
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Biography, the learned historian's method in History, and the daily chronicler's method in dressing _res gestoe_ for a journal, this little addle-pate has jumped to a comparative estimate, not based on comparison, so that all his blindfold vituperation of a noble art is chimera, not reasoning; it is, in fact, a retrograde step in science and logic.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long Charles Reade 1849
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Chief addle-pate and poster child for homeschooling, Jason Levin, who attempted to organize a Crash the Tea Party Movement, has been reduced to peddling tee shirts on
Canada Free Press Joy Tiz 2010
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Chief addle-pate and poster child for homeschooling, Jason Levin, who attempted to organize a Crash the Tea Party Movement, has been reduced to peddling tee shirts on
Canada Free Press Joy Tiz 2010
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Chief addle-pate and poster child for homeschooling, Jason Levin, who attempted to organize a Crash the Tea Party Movement, has been reduced to peddling tee shirts on
Canada Free Press Joy Tiz 2010
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Chief addle-pate and poster child for homeschooling, Jason Levin, who attempted to organize a Crash the Tea Party Movement, has been reduced to peddling tee shirts on
Canada Free Press Joy Tiz 2010
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I saw him with my own eyes last night skulking past the wicket-gate; and the girl’s addle-pate is completely turned.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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