addle

Meanings

1. Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid.
2. Unfruitful or confused; muddled.

1. Liquid filth; mire.

1. To make or become addled; to muddle or confuse.
2. To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.

1. An unwise or intellectually impaired person.

1. To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living.
2. To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Etymology

From Middle English adel (“rotten”), from Old English adel, adela (“mire, pool, liquid excrement”), from Proto-West Germanic *adal, from Proto-Germanic *adalaz, *adalô (“cattle urine, liquid manure”). Akin to Scots adill, North Frisian ethel (“urine”), Saterland Frisian adel (“dung”), Middle Low German adele (“mud, liquid manure”) (Dutch aal (“liquid manure”)), Old Swedish adel (“urine”), Danish ajle (“liquid manure”), Bavarian Adel (“liquid manure”).