different between addled vs waddled

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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Anagrams

• daddle

English

Verb

waddled

1. simple past tense and past participle of waddle

Anagrams

• dawdled