| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.23 | been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou | bin beaten as addle as an egge for quarreling: thou |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.133 | I esteem an addle egg. | I esteeme an addle egge. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.134 | If you love an addle egg as well as you love an | If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an |
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| addle | addled, rotten, putrid |
| bestride | straddle, stand over with legs astride |
| brained | furnished with a brain, addle-brained |
| brainsick, brain-sick | foolish, addle-headed |
| brain-sickly | foolishly, in such an addle-headed way |
| crupper | leather saddle-strap on a horse |
| girth | saddle-securing belt around the body of a horse |
| horse | sit astride [as on a horse], straddle |
| paddle | toy [with], play wantonly [with], fondle |
| point | saddle-bow, pommel |
| stride | bestride, sit astride, straddle |
| tiddle-taddle | [Welsh pronunciation] tittle-tattle, idle gossip, chatter |
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| ADDLE | BASIC | addle adj |
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