simple past and past participle of addle
Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo.
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been—in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away—by the fervour of this reproach.
Confused; mixed up.
coke-addled
From Middle English addledd, adyld, equivalent to addle (“urine, liquid filth”) + -ed. Addle derives from Old English adel, adela (“mud, mire, liquid manure”), cognate with Old Swedish adel (“urine”),...
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Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.