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What (who) is Addle - definition

FICTIONAL CHARACTER IN AN ENGLISH BOOK "LADY ADDLE REMEMBERS : BEING THE MEMOIRS OF THE LADY ADDLE OF EIGG" BY MARY DUNN
Lady Addle

addle      
(addles, addling, addled)
If something addles someone's mind or brain, they become confused and unable to think properly.
I suppose the shock had addled his poor old brain.
= befuddle
VERB: V n
addle      
I. a.
1.
Addled, spoiled (as eggs), rotten, putrid, corrupt.
2.
Barren, unfruitful, fruitless, abortive, unproductive, unprolific, unfertile, sterile, infecund, addled.
II. v. a.
1.
Corrupt, spoil, render barren. See preceding.
2.
Accumulate gradually, earn, lay up, save.
addle      
¦ verb [often as adjective addled]
1. confuse.
2. (of an egg) become rotten, producing no chick.
¦ adjective
1. not clear or cogent; muddled: the film is addle-brained.
2. archaic (of an egg) rotten.
Origin
ME: from OE adela 'liquid filth', of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Lady Blanche Addle

Lady Blanche Addle was a fictitious character created by the British author Mary Dunn (1900–1958) First published in the 1930s Dunn's Lady Addle books amusingly parody and satirise the then British upper classes, and particularly the works of Walburga, Lady Paget; Daisy, Princess of Pless and Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre. It could also have mentioned Lady Sybil Grant. In her two books Mary Dunn traces the life Lady Addle née Lady Blanche Coot daughter of the 13th Earl of Coot from her Victorian childhood until World War II.

The books are written in the first person in the form of "memoirs". Lady Addle details in gushing tones the daily and mundane details of her and her family's uneventful life in such a fashion that she believes they will be of great interest to future generations. written with a subtle humour of which Lady Addle is seemingly unaware. Lady Addle fancies herself a poet and author whose literary works are of high merit when in fact they are banal, and she gives hilarious suggestions on cookery and entertaining as serious fact.

A second character detailed in the books is "Millicent, Duchess of Brisket", commonly known as "Mipsie." She is Lady Blanche's much married sister, née Lady Millicent Coote, a nymphomaniac, black marketeer, brothel keeper and gold digger, facts which Lady Addle unwittingly details while concentrating only on the tragedies of Mipsie's life, and how misunderstood she is.

The books are illustrated by genuine Victorian photographs of members of the British upper class that have been hideously altered. For example, Lady Addle's mother, the Countess of Coote, is heavy-browed and cross-eyed, yet the photograph is captioned "My beautiful Mother", Lady Mipsie, later the Duchess of Brisket, is always shown with wild hair and protruding teeth is captioned "Mipsie at her loveliest"

LadAddle symbolises in a humorous way those females of the early 20th century British aristocracy who subconsciously felt themselves more talented and intelligent than those of less exalted birth, encouraged by a period when it was not uncommon for the pronouncements and literary efforts of upper-class women to be eagerly consumed by an aspiring middle class.

Lady Addle's philosophy can best be explained in the preface to Lady Addle Remembers

"Lady Addle hesitated to publish her memoirs on the grounds it would involve certain disclosures about some of the most illustrious names in Europe.........Destiny - has decreed that my ways should be in high places, I have played Halma with Lord Salisbury. I have bicycled with Bismark, I have knitted a comforter for a King. It is not fitting that I should speak of such moments"

Yet she forces herself to do so.

Examples of use of Addle
1. I find it hard to believe that even this addle–brained administration is capable of breaking the Army.
2. It was ideology, and that, of course, can addle the judgment of the experienced and the inexperienced alike.
3. Fish and Wildlife Service has permitted the city to addle or oil–coat Canada goose eggs in nests for the past five years to stall bird popullation growth.
4. A nice little folk saying is: Íàäåÿòüñÿ è æäàòü –– îäóðàчåííûì ñòàòü. (Hoping and waiting will addle your brain.) Îíà íå ïûòàåòñÿ íàéòè ðàáîòó. Îíà ïðîñòî ñèäèò ó ìîðÿ è æäёò ïîãîäû. (She isn‘t trying to find a job.
5. Social historians John D‘Emilio and Estelle Freedman remarked in their book Intimate Matters÷ A History of Sexuality in America, on a poem one cowboy had written when his partner died ". . . declaring that the two had loved ‘in the way men do . . .‘" The authors also quote a limerick÷ "Young cowboys had a great fear / That old studs once filled with beer / Completely addle‘ / They‘d throw on a saddle, And ride them on the rear." The cowboy became heroic under the pens and brushes of the painters of the so–called Old West.