Both Uses of
addle
in
Circe
- It is a sign, I think, of how addled I was with love and fear and no sleep, that it took me so long to realize: that stinging insects should not come in battalions, and ten falling pots in a morning was beyond even my tired clumsiness.
p. 245.2 *addled = mixed up or confused
- The old cracking sound, the tearing of flesh, and then they were fish no more, but twelve rams, fat and addled.
p. 366.8addled = confused
Definitions:
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(1)
(addle) mix up or confuse
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, addled can refer to an egg whose embryo is dead.