addlepates

Plague take the most forgetful and silliest of old addlepates!

The Clouds

Plague take the most forgetful and silliest of old addlepates!

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1

Never was among such a beef-witted set of addlepates since I was born.

Austin and His Friends

Those addlepates down at the Club were always boasting of their amorous adventures, which began inevitably with the sudden physical attack and ended in easy triumph.

The Torrent Entre Naranjos

And, too, the literary discussions which he loved were out of the question with these addlepates who monologued indefatigably on the subject of their monomania and their ego.

Là-bas

I do not imagine that there are many of these addlepates among my readers; but there is no harm in giving once more a very plain and easy direction which may possibly save somebody some money and some mortification.

The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

Some said the Uberti, others the Lamberti, and one this family and another that, according as it occurred to his mind; which Scalza hearing, he fell a-laughing and said, 'Go to, addlepates that you are!

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio