Addle vs Rattle - What's the difference?
addle | rattle |
(provincial, Northern England) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. — .
(provincial, Northern England) To thrive or grow; to ripen.
:* Kill ivy, else tree will addle no more. – .
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid.
(by extension) Unfruitful]] or confused, as brains; muddled. [[w:John Dryden, John Dryden .
addled
To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain.
To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.
(onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
* Prior
A baby's toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
* Alexander Pope
A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
* Hakewill
(dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
* Macaulay
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
(ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
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(informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
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To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
(obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
To make a clatter with a voice; to talk rapidly and idly; with on'' or ''away .
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between addle and rattle
is that addle is (obsolete) liquid filth; mire while rattle is (obsolete) to scold; to rail at.As verbs the difference between addle and rattle
is that addle is (provincial|northern england) to earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living — or addle can be to make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain while rattle is (ergative) to create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.As nouns the difference between addle and rattle
is that addle is (obsolete) liquid filth; mire or addle can be a foolish or dull-witted fellow while rattle is (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.As an adjective addle
is having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid.addle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) addlen, from (etyl) .Verb
(addl)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* addle-brain * addle-headed * addle-pated * addle plot * addleness * addlepatedVerb
(addl)- "Their eggs were addled ." .
Anagrams
*rattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.
- The rattle of a drum.
- Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw.
- The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
- All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.
- It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle .
- (Heylin)
- The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.
Derived terms
* rattlesnake * spring a rattle * yellow rattle (plant)Verb
(rattl)- to rattle a chain
- Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.
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- "Tut!" said old Bittlesham. "Tut is right," I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. "But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race," I said, "why are you looking so rattled ?"
Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- That United were rattled , mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.
- ''I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling .
- Sound but another [drum], and another shall / As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.
- We rattled along for a couple of miles.
- She rattled on for an hour.
