Word.ws English Dictionary

mad as a mongoose

mad as a mongoose adjective: demented or crazy.

Adjective

mad as a mongoose (not comparable)

  1. (humorous) Demented or crazy.

Questions about mad as a mongoose

What does mad as a mongoose mean?
Mad as a mongoose means demented or crazy.
What part of speech is mad as a mongoose?
Mad as a mongoose is an adjective.

Words near mad as a mongoose in the dictionary

  1. mad as a fish
  2. mad as a hatter
  3. mad as a hornet
  4. mad as a March hare
  5. mad as a meat axe
  6. mad as a mongoose
  7. mad as a wet hen
  8. mad as cut snakes
  9. mad as hops
  10. mad cap
  11. mad caps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mad as a mongoose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mad as a mongoose.wav.

Cite this entry: “mad as a mongoose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mad_as_a_mongoose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.