mad

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Middle English medd, madd, from Old English gemǣd (“enraged”), from gemād (“silly, mad”), from Proto-Germanic *maidaz (compare Old High German gimeit (“foolish, crazy”), Gothic gamaiþs (“crippled”)), past participle of *maiđjanan (“to cripple, injure”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei (“to change”) (compare Old Irish máel (“bald, dull”), Old Lithuanian ap-maitinti (“to wound”), Sanskrit  (méthati, “he hurts, comes to blows”)).

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mad (comparative madder, superlative maddest)

  1. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
    You want to spend $1000 on a pair of shoes? Are you mad?
    He's got this mad idea that he's irresistible to women.
  2. (chiefly US; UK dated + regional) Angry, annoyed.
    Are you mad at me?
  3. Wildly confused or excited.
    • 1787: The Fair Syrian, R. Bage, p.314
      My brother, quiet as a cat, seems perfectly contented with the internal feelings of his felicity. The Marquis, mad as a kitten, is all in motion to express it, from tongue to heel.
  4. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
  5. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.
    Aren't you just mad for that red dress?
  6. (of animals) abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
    A mad dog
  7. (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; much or many.
    I gotta give you mad props for scoring us those tickets.
    Their lead guitarist has mad skills.
    There's always mad girls at those parties.

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In the United States and Canada, mad generally implies the angry sense. In Commonwealth countries other than Canada, mad typically implies the insane or crazy sense.

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insane (adj.)
angry
wanting intensely

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mad (not comparable)

  1. (slang, chiefly New York) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.
    He was driving mad slow.
    It's mad hot today.

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mad (third-person singular simple present mads, present participle madding, simple past and past participle madded)

  1. (now colloquial US) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
    • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, Act V Scene 5:
      This musick mads me, let it sound no more.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.2.4.iv:
      He that mads others, if he were so humoured, would be as mad himself, as much grieved and tormented [...].

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mad

  1. good

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mad

  1. goodness

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From Old Norse matr.

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mad c. (singular definite maden, not used in plural form)

  1. food

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mad c. (singular definite madden, plural indefinite madder)

  1. sandwich, bread and butter

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    Inflection of mad
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative mad madden madder madderne
genitive mads maddens madders maddernes

[edit] Palauan

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mad

  1. eye

[edit] Welsh

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mad

  1. good
  2. lucky, fortunate
  3. suitable

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mad m.

  1. goodness
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