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5-letter words (4 found)

ADDLE,DALED,DEDAL,LADED,

4-letter words (5 found)

DALE,DEAD,DEAL,LADE,LEAD,

3-letter words (10 found)

ADD,ALE,DAD,DAE,DAL,DEL,ELD,LAD,LEA,LED,

2-letter words (9 found)

AD,AE,AL,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 29 words from addle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of addle

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Definitions and meaning of addle

addle

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.dəl/
  • Rhymes: -ædəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English addlen, adlen, from Old English edlēan (“reward, pay-back”), edlēanian (“to reward, recompense”); or from or cognate with Old Norse ǫðlask (“to gain possession of property”), from ōðal (“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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, 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", Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), 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,
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Translations

Noun

addle (plural addles)

  1. (obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.

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.
    • 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.
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Noun

addle (plural addles)

  1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

Anagrams

  • daled, dedal, laded

Old Prussian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis, potentially from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ-l-; Cognates include Latvian egle (“spruce, fir”), Lithuanian ẽglė (“spruce”) and descendants of Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (“spruce”). Likely also related to Latin ebulum (“red elderberry”) and its cognates.

Noun

addle

  1. fir (tree)
    • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
      Tanne   Addle

Scots

Alternative forms

  • addil, aidle, aidil, adle

Etymology

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑdl/, /ˈedl/

Adjective

addle

  1. foul, putrid, issuing from a cowhouse or dunghill.

Noun

addle

  1. foul and putrid water, ditch water, byre wash, liquid manure.
  2. The urine of black cattle.

Verb

addle

  1. To water the roots of plants with the urine of cattle.

References

  • “addle, n., adj., v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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