addlepated
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Guinness is loftily addlepated as a Royal Navy captain whose stomach is so queasy that he tosses his tiffin whenever he sights open water, even in a fish bowl.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a continuity writer for a Buffalo radio station, the Colonel teamed up in 1930 with Announcer Budd Hulick to become the addlepated team of Stoopnagle and Budd.
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Artist Marc Rosenthal's cartoons have the cheerful, addlepated look of a comics page from 60 years ago.
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Dear Mom recounts the adventures of an addlepated rookie named Homer Stubbs, and his highborn pal Red Foster, son of a factory owner, who helps him badger a tough top-sergeant called Monihan.
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The blow made me addlepated and weakened my knees.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
