Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mad fellow.
- Wild; cracked.
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Examples
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Come, let us leave this madpash bedlam, this hairbrained fop, and give him leave to rave and dose his bellyful with his private and intimately acquainted devils, who, if they were not the very worst of all infernal fiends, would never have deigned to serve such a knavish barking cur as this is.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Come, let us leave this madpash bedlam, this hairbrained fop, and give him leave to rave and dose his bellyful with his private and intimately acquainted devils, who, if they were not the very worst of all infernal fiends, would never have deigned to serve such a knavish barking cur as this is.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Come, let us leave this madpash bedlam, this hairbrained fop, and give him leave to rave and dose his bellyful with his private and intimately acquainted devils, who, if they were not the very worst of all infernal fiends, would never have deigned to serve such a knavish barking cur as this is.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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You’re wandering, woman -- maffling like a madpash.
Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920
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