Both Uses of
addle
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Bit addled now.†
Chpt 11 *addled = mixed up or confused
- Then he starts all confused mucking it up about mortgagor under the act like the lord chancellor giving it out on the bench and for the benefit of the wife and that a trust is created but on the other hand that Dignam owed Bridgeman the money and if now the wife or the widow contested the mortgagee's right till he near had the head of me addled with his mortgagor under the act.†
Chpt 12
Definitions:
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(1)
(addle) mix up or confuse
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, addled can refer to an egg whose embryo is dead.