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maddish

maddish adjective: somewhat mad.

Adjective

maddish

  1. Somewhat mad.
    • I have reserved for the last place a Character which maketh his case most desperate, called by Auusten maddish obstinacy […]1642, Thomas Morton, The Presentment of a Schismaticke, London: R. Whitaker & S. Brown, p. 6
    • Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in forma.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

Origin of maddish

From mad + -ish.

Words that rhyme with maddish

Questions about maddish

What does maddish mean?
Maddish means somewhat mad.
What part of speech is maddish?
Maddish is an adjective.

Words near maddish in the dictionary

  1. maddies
  2. madding
  3. Maddingley
  4. maddingly
  5. Maddings
  6. maddish
  7. Maddison
  8. Maddisons
  9. Maddix
  10. Maddixes
  11. maddle

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