maddish

English

Etymology

mad + -ish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ædɪʃ

Adjective

maddish

  1. Somewhat mad.
    • 1642, Thomas Morton, The Presentment of a Schismaticke, London: R. Whitaker & S. Brown, p. 6,
      I have reserved for the last place a Character which maketh his case most desperate, called by Auusten maddish obstinacy []
    • 1815, Charles Lamb, letter to William Wordsworth dated 28 April, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905, Volume 4, p. 39,
      Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in forma.
    • 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:
      He is small and thin, and has glasses and large teeth and the maddish smile of genuine intellectual passion.
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