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- noun Plural form of
addlepate .
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Examples
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Plague take the most forgetful and silliest of old addlepates!
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Plague take the most forgetful and silliest of old addlepates!
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Never was among such a beef-witted set of addlepates since I was born.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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