mad-headed, a.
[f. mad a. + headed a.]
= mad-brained.
| 1567 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) E iv, For well I knewe it was some madheded chylde That inuented this name. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iii. 80. 1599 Breton Praise Vertuous Ladies (Grosart) 56 For a few mad-headed wenches, they seek to bring..almost all women in contempt. 1793 Southey Lett. (1856) I. 20 Nor does it become a young mad-headed enthusiast to judge. 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (1865) 216 The inflammatory harangues of some mad-headed enthusiast. 1897 Henty On the Irrawaddy 37 It seems to me a mad-headed thing to begin at the present time. |