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

A foolish or dull-witted fellow.

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.

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.

The state or quality of being addle.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of addle

plural of addle