"addle pate" meaning in English

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          "text": "Am I to be ramshaklt out of the super nakullums in spite o' my teeth? Yea and go softly! I crack the nut and you eat the kernel!\nI tellee once again you've an addle pate o' your own! [...] Squire Nincompoop!",
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          "text": "Then he executed a war-dance, and at its close stepped before Crawford, regarded him for an instant, and croaked out:\n\"Addle-pate! Addle-pate!\"\n\"Upon my word, I believe you are the foul fiend himself,\" muttered Mark.",
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        "A foolish or dull-witted person."
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        "(archaic, idiomatic) A foolish or dull-witted person."
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