Both Uses of
addle
in
Oryx and Crake
- How could he exist in this clean, dry, monotonous, ordinary room, gobbling caramel soycorn and zucchini cheese puffs and addling his brain on spirituous liquors and brooding on the total fiasco that was his personal life, while the entire human race was kakking out?†
p. 343.3addling = confusing
- Or was he tormented by jealousy, was he addled by love, was it revenge, did he just want Jimmy to put him out of his misery?†
p. 343.9 *addled = mixed up or confused
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.