maddlev.
/ˈmadl/, U.S. /ˈmædl/ Now English regional (northern).
1. intransitive. To be or become mad; to be confused in mind; to be dotingly fond (with after, of).
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > be or become mad [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
wedec900
awedeeOE
starea1275
braidc1275
ravea1325
to be out of mindc1325
woodc1374
to lose one's mindc1380
madc1384
forgetc1385
to go out of one's minda1398
to wede (out) of, but wita1400
foolc1400
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
forcene1490
ragec1515
waltc1540
maddle?c1550
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1565
pass of wita1616
to have a gad-bee in one's brain1682
madden1704
to go (also be) off at the nail1721
distract1768
craze1818
to get a rat1890
to need (to have) one's head examined (also checked, read)1896
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
to go haywire1929
to go mental1930
to go troppo1941
to come apart1954
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844) xxv. 205 He was becoome feble by reason of sore and dayly siknes and began to maddle.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiii/2 To Maddle, delirare, dissipere.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kivv/1 To Maddil, delirare.
c1600 in H. W. Meikle Wks. W. Fowler (1914) I. 372 The chased hayre..skipps And madlethe heare and ther.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) i. 47 To maddle, to be fond. She maddles of this Fellow, she is fond of him.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (at cited word) She maddles after that fellow.
1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 107 To maddle, to be fond of to the extent of losing one's senses in the matter.
1885 T. Clarke et al. Specimens Westmorland Dial. (new ed.) iii. 3 A wes faer maddlet an sed ta masell', this is parlish waark.
1898 R. Blakeborough Wit N. Riding Yorks. 414 Thoo'll gan maddlin' efter t'lass whahl thoo'll loss thi job.
2. transitive. To make mad; to confuse in mind, bewilder.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)]
turn1372
mada1425
overthrow?a1425
to go (also fall, run) mada1450
deferc1480
craze1503
to face (a person) out ofc1530
dement1545
distemper1581
shake1594
distract1600
to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600
unwita1616
insaniate?1623
embedlama1628
dementate1628
crack1631
unreason1643
bemad1655
ecstasya1657
overset1695
madden1720
maddle1775
insanify1809
derange1825
bemoon1866
send (someone) up the wall1951
1775 J. Watson Hist. Halifax Gloss. 543 Maddled, puzzled.
1819 ‘P. Bobbin’ Sequel to Lancs. Dial. 11 Feerfo things,..welli maddlunt me fur o' bit.
1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Maddle, to cause distraction of thought, confusion of mind, as by long continued and loud talking.
1850 H. L. Lear Tales Kirkbeck 2nd Ser. 79 I'm afraid she's quite maddled.
1864 T. Clarke in Kendal Mercury 30 Jan. A wes faer maddl't amang em.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 4/1 'Twad maddle a priest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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