different between raddle vs addle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æd?l/
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

From a variation of reddle, ruddle. Related to red.

Noun

raddle (countable and uncountable, plural raddles)

1. A red ochre.

Synonyms

• reddle
• ruddle

Translations

Verb

raddle (third-person singular simple present raddles, present participle raddling, simple past and past participle raddled)

1. To mark with raddle; to daub something red.
2. To interweave or twist together.

   • raddling or working it up like basket work

3. To do work in a slovenly way.

Synonyms

• reddle
• ruddle

Translations

See also

• ruddy
• raddled

Etymology 2

From earlier radel, redle (noun), and ruddle (verb), perhaps a transposition of hurdle or an alteration of riddle (“curtain”).

Noun

raddle (plural raddles)

1. A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
2. A hedge or fence made with raddles.

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3. An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.

Synonyms

• (weavers' tool): evener, niffler

Anagrams

• Aldred, ladder, larded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.d?l/
• Rhymes: -æd?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English addlen, adlen, from Old English edl?an (“reward, pay-back”), edl?anian (“to reward, recompense”); or more likely, from Old Norse ?ðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ?ðal (“owndom, property”).

Verb

addle (third-person singular simple present addles, present participle addling, simple past and past participle addled)

1. (provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
2. (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
   • 1573, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

     Kill ivy, or else tree will addle no more.

Etymology 2

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel "dung", Middle Low German adele "mud, liquid manure" (Dutch aal "puddle"), Old Swedish adel "urine", Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).

Adjective

addle (comparative more addle, superlative most addle)

1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.

2. (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.
   • (prologue)

     Thus far the poet; but his brains grow addle,

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

addle (plural addles)

1. (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.
2. (provincial) Lees; dregs.

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Verb

addle (third-person singular simple present addles, present participle addling, simple past and past participle addled)

1. To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle
   • 1782, William Cowper, Pairing Time Anticipated

     Their eggs were addled.

   • 2000, Quentin Skinner, “The Adviser to Princes”, in Nigel Warburton; Jon Pike; Derek Matravers, Reading Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill, Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge in association with The Open University, 978-0-415-21196-3, page 30:

     [Niccolò] Machiavelli had received an early lesson in the value of addling men's brains. […] [A] talent for addling men's brains is part of the armoury of any successful prince […] .

2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

addle (plural addles)

1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

Anagrams

• daled, dedal, laded