词汇 | addle |
词源 | addle [ME] Originally a rotten egg was described as an addle egg from Old English addle, liquid mud or dung, the sort of stuff you might come across in a farmyard, and which came to describe rotten eggs because of their smell. Brains have been addled since the late 16th century. |
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