Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stupid bungler; an addle-pate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
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- noun pejorative A
foolish ordull-witted person .
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Examples
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It was the same that he had summoned one evening at the Hotel Steinbock, and treated there as an addle-brain, as a visionary, and even as an imbecile; but this time he gave him a more indulgent and gracious reception.
Samuel Brohl and Company Victor Cherbuliez 1864
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