raddled

raddled
adjective
rad·;dled ;ra-d;ld
Synonyms of raddled
1
: being in a state of confusion : lacking composure
2
: broken-down, worn


Did you know?
The origin of raddled is unclear. Its participial form suggests verbal parentage, and indeed there is a verb raddle just a few decades older than raddled that seems a likely source. This raddle means "to mark or paint with raddle," raddle here being red ocher, or sometimes other pigments, used for marking animals. Raddle eventually came to mean "to color highly with rouge," the metaphor connecting the raddling of animal husbandry with immoderate makeup application: to be raddled thusly was not a compliment. The "confused" sense of raddled is often associated with the influence of alcohol or drugs. That connection is in keeping with the word's earliest known use, from a 1694 translation of French writer Francois Rabelais: "A … fellow, continually raddled, and as drunk as a wheelbarrow."

Synonyms
addle
addled
addlepated
bedeviled
befogged
befuddled
bemused
bewildered
bushed [chiefly Australian]
confounded
confused
dazed
distracted
dizzy
dopey
dopy
fogged
mixed-up
muddleheaded
muzzy
pixilated
pixillated
punch-drunk
punchy
shell-shocked
silly
slaphappy
spaced-out
spaced
spacey
spacy
stunned
stupefied
zonked
zonked-out
Examples of raddled in a Sentence
trying to explain a mix-up in my mail order to a clearly raddled clerk in customer service

Word History
Etymology
of obscure origin

First Known Use
1694, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of raddled was in 1694
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