Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hot-brained; rash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wild; crack-brained.
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Examples
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I will confess that on his first telling, it seemed to me a mad-headed, fantastical trick that had no chance of success.
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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No one can imagine what mad-headed people were about this Princess, and among the number was the Marechale d'Estrees.
The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001
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Believe me, my dear, their plans are too well grounded to be defeated, as every one framed by the fallacious constitutionalists and mad-headed royalists has been; and so they will ever be while they continue to form two separate interests.
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No one can imagine what mad-headed people were about this Princess, and among the number was the Marechale d'Estrees.
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Believe me, my dear, their plans are too well grounded to be defeated, as every one framed by the fallacious constitutionalists and mad-headed royalists has been; and so they will ever be while they continue to form two separate interests.
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Believe me, my dear, their plans are too well grounded to be defeated, as every one framed by the fallacious constitutionalists and mad-headed royalists has been; and so they will ever be while they continue to form two separate interests.
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I reckon she'd have to look not such a mad-headed rabbit before I'd give her anything but some advice to bag her head.
Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916
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"Yes, but he's such a mad-headed animal – and those paths on the sides of the gullies are very steep."
Mates at Billabong 1911
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He was a true Jocelyn -- impetuous, mad-headed daring; and from the time of those festivities at Maudesley Abbey he only dreamed and thought of
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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He loved her truly and devotedly, after his own mad-headed fashion.
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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