Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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RADDLE, v. To fuddle, stupefy. Appar. of slang orig., obs. in Eng.Dmb. 1931 A. J. Cronin Hatter's Castle ii. i.:
All this worry has raddled ye.Kcd. 1933 L. G. Gibbon Cloud Howe (1937) 180:
The older men mostly, disjasked, ill-dressed, with their white, spinner faces and ill-shaved chins, like raddled old loons.
