22 August 2013

addle

[ad-l]

verb, ad·dled, ad·dling, adjective
verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

1. to make or become confused.
2. to make or become rotten, as eggs.
adjective
3. mentally confused; muddled. e.g. Too addled to study.
4. rotten: addle eggs.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English adel rotten, Old English adela liquid, filth; cognate with Middle Low German adele liquid manure

Related forms
un·ad·dled, adjective

Today’s aphorism

Don’t let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

– unknown.

On this day

22 August 565 – St Columba claims to see a monster in Loch Ness.

22 August 1770 – Captain James Cook sets foot on the east cost of Australia.

22 August 1864 – signing of the First Geneva Convention (for ‘Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field’)

22 August 1917 – birth of John Lee Hooker, American blues guitarist.

22 August 1952 – birth of Joe Strummer, British rock singer with ‘The Clash’.

22 August 1963 – birth of Tori Amos, American pianist/singer.