单词 | mad-headed |
释义 | mad-headedadj. Now rare. Insane; impetuous. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > scatter-brained madbraina1560 mad-headeda1566 mad-braineda1577 madcap1591 shatter-headedc1686 shatter-brained1727 shatter-witted1775 scatter-brained1804 skivie1808 wuzzy1896 shatter-pated1901 scatty1911 twitterpated1943 a1566 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) sig. Eiv For well I knewe it was some madheded chylde That inuented this name. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 75 Out you madhedded ape. View more context for this quotation 1599 N. Breton Wil of Wit (1876) 56 For a few mad-headed wenches, they seek to bring..almost all women in contempt. 1685 E. Pococke Comm. Hosea iv. 222/1 A..mad-headed, unruly heifer, that..runs wantonly madding about. 1803 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) I. 20 Nor does it become a young mad-headed enthusiast to judge. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) II. 250 The inflammatory harangues of some mad-headed enthusiast. 1897 G. A. Henty On Irrawaddy 37 It seems to me a mad-headed thing to begin at the present time. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. IV. 2628/1 We..speak of a very foolish, impetuous, or venturesome person as mad-headed. 2001 www.rugbyheaven.com.au 14 Dec. (O.E.D. Archive) Auckland started this habit away back in the mid-80s but never with the mad-headed ferocity now being used against players nowhere near the centre of the action. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1566 |
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