caddlen.
dialect.
1. Disorder, disarray, confusion, disturbance.
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1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) Caddle, a term signifying confusion or embarrassment. To be in a caddle, means to be overwhelmed with business.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. II. xvii. 317 ‘Ther wur no sich a caddle about sick folk when I wur a buoy’.
1863 A. Marsh Heathside Farm I. 70 Mrs. Stone, a short, plump, Wiltshire matron..apologised for being found in such a caddle.
2. Trouble, bother.
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1865 Reader 12 Aug. 182/2 The English won't take the trouble—won't, as they say with us in Somerset, be at the caddle to look after such things.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
caddlev.
dialect.
To trouble, disturb, worry.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb [verb (transitive)]
to-wendc893
mingeOE
dreveOE
angerc1175
sturb?c1225
worec1225
troublec1230
sturble1303
disturbc1305
movea1325
disturblec1330
drubblea1340
drovec1350
distroublec1369
tempestc1374
outsturba1382
unresta1382
stroublec1384
unquietc1384
conturb1393
mismaya1400
unquemea1400
uneasec1400
discomfita1425
smite?a1425
perturbc1425
pertrouble?1435
inquiet1486
toss1526
alter1529
disquiet1530
turmoil1530
perturbate1533
broil1548
mis-set?1553
shake1567
parbruilyiec1586
agitate1587
roil1590
transpose1594
discompose1603
harrow1609
hurry1611
obturb1623
shog1636
untune1638
alarm1649
disorder1655
begruntlea1670
pother1692
disconcert1695
ruffle1701
tempestuate1702
rough1777
caddle1781
to put out1796
upset1805
discomfort1806
start1821
faze1830
bother1832
to put aback1833
to put about1843
raft1844
queer1845
rattle1865
to turn over1865
untranquillize1874
hack1881
rock1881
to shake up1884
to put off1909
to go (also pass) through a phase1913
to weird out1970
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) Gloss. Caddle, to attend officiously.
1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire Gloss. (E.D.S.) (at cited word) Don't caddle me, don't teaze me. A cadling fellow means an impertinent or troublesome companion.
1862 T. Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. 5 250 A caddled the mice in many a vield.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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