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ADDLE-PATE

Definition: ADDLE-PATE

ADDLE-PATE

Noun

1. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: ADDLE-PATE

English words defined with "ADDLE-PATE": Addle-brain. (references)

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Modern Translation: ADDLE-PATE

Language Translations for "ADDLE-PATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

混淆头脑. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tökfej (blockhead, chucklehead, chump, dolt, doodle, dullard, dumbo, dummy, lunk, lunkhead, meatball, mooncalf, mooncalves, mutt, muttonhead, mutton-head, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noodle, numb-skull, numskull, pinhead, pudding-head, sap, softy, veg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

addle-pateay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cachola (coconut, nob, noddle, nut, pate, sconce, twopenny). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

пустоголовый человек (addle-head), пустоголовый (addle-brained, empty headed, empty-headed, idleheaded, idle-headed, rattlebrained, rattle-brained). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

budalast (addle-brained, cock eyed, cockeye, daffy, dippy, dopey, dopy, foolish, half-witted, idleheaded, infatuated, nitwitted). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hönshjärna. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuş beyinli (addle-brain, bird brained, bird witted, birdbrain, dizzy, empty headed, feather brain, feather-brained, harebrained, nitwit, pinhead, shallow-brained), beyinsiz (addle-brain, addle-headed, brainless, dim witted, pinhead, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattle-pated, stupid). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người đầu óc lẫn quẫn (addle-head). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ADDLE-PATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-l-p-t"

-1 letter: dealated.

-2 letters: adapted, dealate, delated, pedaled, petaled, pleaded, pleated.

-3 letters: alated, daedal, delate, delead, elated, leaded, leaped, paddle, palate, paleae, pealed, pedate, peddle, pelted, plated.

-4 letters: adapt, addle, adept, alate, dated, dealt, dedal, deled, delta, elate, etape, laded, lated, leapt, lepta, padle, palea, paled, palet, pated, pedal, petal, plate, plead, pleat, taped, telae, tepal.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-e-e-l-p-t"
 

+1 letter: addlepated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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