(provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. / (provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten; putrid. / (by extension) Unfruitful or confused; muddled.

(obsolete) Liquid filth; mire.

To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle / To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.

A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

plural of addle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of addle

The state or quality of being addle.

simple past tense and past participle of addle

(of eggs) Bad, rotten; inviable, containing a dead embryo. / Confused; mixed up. / (obsolete) Morbid, corrupt, putrid, or barren.