MADPASH ADJ. wild, rash, scatterbrained, insane, mad ...1693 obs. NOUN a foolish or insane person; a lunatic, a mad fellow; a crackbrained person; a scatterbrain; a hot-headed person; a rash or turbulent person; a wild, giddy person ...1611 obs. ETYMOLOGY from mad (adj.) + -pash (n. the head, the brain) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1611 - Mat, a foole, fop, gull; mad-pash, harebrained ninnie. From: A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues - Randle Cotgrave EXAMPLE "...Come, let us leave this Madpash Bedlam, this hairbrain'd Fop, and give him leave to rave and dose his Belly-full, with his private and intimately acquainted Devils..." From: The Third Book of the Works of Mr. Francis Rabelais - By Francois Rabelais Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux
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