Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Mad with rage at having been made a cuckold. See horn, 4 .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Quite mad; -- raving crazy.

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Examples

  • Proud and vainglorious persons are certainly mad; and so are [764] lascivious; I can feel their pulses beat hither; horn-mad some of them, to let others lie with their wives, and wink at it.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.

    Much Ado About Nothing 2004

  • Though what I am I cannot avoid, yet to be what I would not, shall not make me tame: if I have horns to make me mad, let the proverb go with me; I’ll be horn-mad.

    Act III. Scene V. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.

    Act I. Scene I. Much Ado about Nothing 1914

  • I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found the young man, he would have been horn-mad.

    Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • In the eyes of the excellent Rogers I am horn-mad.

    Simon the Jester William John Locke 1896

  • "Well, I tell ye fairly, I'm horn-mad," cries Stewart.

    David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

  • Was it fair to me? was it fair to Miss Grant that counselled you to go, and would be driven fair horn-mad if she could hear of it?

    David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

  • In the same letter in which Walpole had referred to _Miss Lucy in Town_, he had spoken of the success of a new player at Goodman's Fields, after whom all the town, in Gray's phrase, was "horn-mad;" but in whose acting Mr. Walpole, with a critical distrust of novelty, saw nothing particularly wonderful.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

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