addle | (verb) become rotten | - |
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(verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: muddle, puddle |
addlebrained | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlepated, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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addled | (adjective) confused and vague; used especially of thinking | Synonyms: befuddled, muddled, muzzy, woolly-headed, woolly, wooly-minded, wooly |
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(adjective) (of eggs) no longer edible | - |
addlehead | (noun) a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought | Synonyms: addle-head, birdbrain, loon |
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addlepated | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, muddleheaded, puddingheaded |
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astraddle | (adverb) with one leg on each side | Synonyms: astride |
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offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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packsaddle | (noun) a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached | - |
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paddle | (noun) a short light oar used without an oarlock to propel a canoe or small boat | Synonyms: boat paddle |
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(noun) an instrument of punishment consisting of a flat board | - |
(noun) a blade of a paddle wheel or water wheel | - |
(noun) small wooden bat with a flat surface; used for hitting balls in various games | - |
(verb) stir with a paddle | - |
(verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
(verb) propel with a paddle | - |
(verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
(verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
paddlefish | (noun) primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout | Synonyms: duckbill, Polyodon spathula |
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paddler | (noun) someone paddling a canoe | Synonyms: canoeist |
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paddlewheel | (noun) a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat | Synonyms: paddle wheel |
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raddle | (noun) a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking | Synonyms: reddle, ruddle |
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(verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
(verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
raddled | (adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, haggard, worn |
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(adjective) used until no longer useful | Synonyms: worn-out |
saddle | (noun) posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl | - |
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(noun) a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal | - |
(noun) a seat for the rider of a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle seat |
(noun) a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe | - |
(noun) cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins | - |
(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddleback |
(verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
(verb) put a saddle on | - |
(verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
saddleback | (noun) a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end | Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof |
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(noun) a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) | Synonyms: saddle |
saddlebag | (noun) a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle | - |
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saddlebill | (noun) large black-and-white stork of tropical Africa; its red bill has a black band around the middle | Synonyms: Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, jabiru |
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saddlebow | (noun) handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle | Synonyms: pommel |
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saddlecloth | (noun) stable gear consisting of a blanket placed under the saddle | Synonyms: horse blanket, saddle blanket |
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saddled | (adjective) having a saddle on or being mounted on a saddled animal | - |
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(adjective) subject to an imposed burden | - |
saddler | (noun) a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses | - |
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saddlery | (noun) gear for a horse | Synonyms: stable gear, tack |
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(noun) workshop where a saddler works | - |
sidesaddle | (noun) a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse | - |
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(adverb) on or as if on a sidesaddle | - |
skedaddle | (noun) a hasty flight | - |
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(verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
staddle | (noun) a base or platform on which hay or corn is stacked | - |
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straddle | (noun) the act of sitting or standing astride | Synonyms: span |
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(noun) the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options | - |
(noun) a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars | - |
(noun) a noncommittal or equivocal position | - |
(verb) be noncommittal | - |
(verb) sit or stand astride of | - |
(verb) range or extend over; occupy a certain area | Synonyms: range |
swaddle | (verb) wrap in swaddling clothes | Synonyms: swathe |
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twaddle | (noun) pretentious or silly talk or writing | Synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh |
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle |
twaddler | (noun) someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle | - |
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unsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: offsaddle |
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unsaddled | (adjective) with no saddle | - |
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waddle | (noun) walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other | - |
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(verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
waddler | (noun) someone who walks with a waddling gait | - |
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