addlepate

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His breathtaking puns, doubtless conceived in the hope of making Foster seem a wit rather than an addlepate, are the best strokes in the portrait.

From Time Magazine Archive

What kind of addlepate starts school on the last day?

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

My dear girl, every addlepate wants to write.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

By this time night had come on, and then before this addlepate, Charles Fitzroy by name, knew where he was, he found himself alone.

From The Coming of the King by Hocking, James

And for Saint-Germain, who seemed to you idiotic one day when perhaps he had lunched too well, but who nevertheless is a fine addlepate, full of sympathy and spirit.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel