A rather unfriendly way to call someone an idiot.
That addle-coved barkeep threw me out of the Styx Oarsman just for lighting a torch!" Also a noun, as in "He's an addle-cove!"
A foolish man. (see Cove, Addle-pate)
It's only an Addle-cove what don't vote Tammany.
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