different between addled vs raddled

English

Etymology

From Middle English addledd, adyld, equivalent to addle (“urine, liquid filth”) +? -ed. Addle derives from Old English adel, adela (“mud, mire, liquid manure”), cognate with Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal (“manure”). Used in noun phrase addle egg (mid-13c.) “egg that does not hatch, rotten egg”, lit. “urine egg”, a loan translation of Latin ovum urinum, which is itself an erroneous loan translation of Ancient Greek ?????? ??? (oúrion ?ión, “putrid egg”), lit. “wind egg”, from ?????? (oúrios, “of the wind”), from ????? (oûros, “fair wind”) (confused by Roman writers with ?????? (oúrios, “of urine”), from ????? (oûron, “urine”)). Because of this usage, the noun in English was taken as an adj. from c. 1600, meaning “putrid”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d?ld/

Verb

addled

1. simple past tense and past participle of addle

Adjective

addled (comparative more addled, superlative most addled)

1. (of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
2. Confused; mixed up.
3. (obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.

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• daddle

English

Adjective

raddled (comparative more raddled, superlative most raddled)

1. Worn-out and broken-down.
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse.

     In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:weak or Thesaurus:deteriorated