feeble-brained

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English

Adjective

feeble-brained (comparative feebler-brained, superlative feeblest-brained)

  1. (archaic) Feeble-minded, harebrained.
    • 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:
      She was not clene ensaymed,
      She was not wel reclaymed;
      But the fawconer unfayned
      Was moch more febler brayned.