Word of the Week #29

Addlepated

ad·dle·pat·ed adj.
Befuddled; confused.
Eccentric; peculiar: “ [Her] estates... are odes to addlepated excess, a melange of priceless antiques and thrift-store horrors” (Michelle Green). Senseless; mad: “led the addlepated charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava” (Thomas Flanagan).

Addle-pated

Addle-brained \Ad"dle-brained`\, Addle-headed \Ad"dle-head`ed\,Addle-pated \Ad"dle-pa`ted\, a. Dull-witted; stupid. ``The addle-brained Oberstein.'' --Motley.

Dull and addle-pated. --Dryden.

addlepated
adj : stupid and confused; used especially of persons; "blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne [syn: addlebrained, potty, puddingheaded, muddleheaded]