"Are you all addlepated?" He demanded as the laughter died down. He banged on the door harder. "I am Noble Kolton Taylor. You will release me at once or face the consequences!"
The men on the other side of the door laughed again. "We don't care about your consequences." One gruff voice said, banging back.
"Nor who you are!" Another voice added.
"You're not leaven there until we say so!"
"Listen you Slimverged Slugs. I will see you all hanged if you do not let me out this instant! My father-"
"Is glad to be rid of you. Shut up or we won't feed you until the morrow."
Kolton Taylor frowned. His father was not glad to be rid of him, had he not just said the night before how great of a son he was? That he was proud to have him as a heir? These guys were addlepated. "How about I don't shut up until you feed me." He demanded back, turning to search the small enclosure. There had to be something in here to help him escape.
Addlepated - 1: being mixed up : confused 2: eccentric
Added Info - In Middle English an "adel eye" was a putrid egg. The stench of such an egg apparently pervaded the minds of some witty thinkers who hatched a comparison between the diminished, unsound quality of an "adel" (or "addle") egg and an empty, confused head--or pate. "Your owne imagination, which was no lesse Idle, then your head was addle all that day," wrote one 17th-century wit, playing on the similarity between "idle" and "addle." Today, "addle" is often found in combination with words referring to one's noggin, as in "addlepated," "addlebrained," and "addle-headed."
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