addlepated

adj

1. Addled; confused; stupid; flustered.

   “Let euery idle addle-pated gull With stinking sweet Tobacco stuffe his skull.”

   “Hallo father, here’s Pecksniff! He gets more addle-pated every day he lives, I do believe,’ muttered Jonas, shaking his honoured parent roundly.”

   ““[…] I don’t really know if I’m doing right—it may make you more addle-pated than ever—but you can ask Diana to come over and spend the afternoon with you and have tea here.””

   ““Do you actually expect me to wander the world as if I were an addlepated bald woman escaped from the circus?” she would say.”

   “His best-known creations are the addlepated, cheese-loving inventor Wallace, and Gromit, his patient, intelligent dog.”