maddish

adj

maddish

adj

Etymology From mad + -ish.

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.

1 more example

He is small and thin, and has glasses and large teeth and the maddish smile of genuine intellectual passion.1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:

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