feeble-brained

adjective

Feeble-minded, harebrained.

Meanings

adjectivefeeble-brained (comparative more feeble-brained or feebler-brained, superlative most feeble-brained or feeblest-brained)

comparative more feeble-brained · comparative feebler-brained · superlative most feeble-brained · superlative feeblest-brained

  1. archaicFeeble-minded, harebrained.

    She was not clene ensaymed, She was not wel reclaymed; But the fawconer unfayned Was moch more febler brayned.

    c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 79–83
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