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ˈhare-brained, a.
Also hair-.
[parasynth. f. hare brain + -ed2. For the form hair-, see prec.]
Having or showing no more ‘brains’ or sense than a hare; heedless, reckless; rash, wild, mad. Of persons, their actions, etc.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 216 b, My desire is that none of you be so unadvised or harebrained as to be the occasion that [etc.]. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iii. (1586) 148 If his sonne be haughtie, or haire brained, he termeth him courageous. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 100 Whilst they, out of a hare-brained lunacie desire battaile. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. i. (ed. 2) 42 The hair-brain'd advise of his young Cavalieres. 1738Swift Polite Convers. 144 Perhaps it will make me hare-brain'd. 1818Hazlitt Eng. Poets vii. (1870) 172 The excesses of mad, hairbrained, roaring mirth. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. xxii, Keeping hare-brained follies at arm's-length.
Hence ˈhare-brainedly adv.; ˈhare-brainedness.
a1577Gascoigne Fruite of Fetters (R.), Fansie..farewell, whose badge..in my hat full harebrayndly, thy flowers did I weare. 1656Blount Glossogr., Cerebrosity, brainsickness, hairbrainedness. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea Ep. Ded. C ij, Profane, and giddy hairbrainedness. |