The Only Use of
addle
in
The Glass Castle
- But it sounded like gibberish, and everyone thought she was addled except for Mom, who understood her perfectly and said she had an excellent vocabulary.
p. 27.5addled = 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.