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madcap

[mad-kap]

adjective

  1. wildly or heedlessly impulsive; reckless; rash.

    a madcap scheme.



noun

  1. a madcap person.

madcap

/ ˈæˌæ /

adjective

  1. impulsive, reckless, or lively

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an impulsive, reckless, or lively person

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of madcap1

First recorded in 1580–90; mad + cap 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of madcap1

C16: from mad + cap (in the figurative sense: head)
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But like a car wreck on the side of the highway, it was also a disturbing sign of the madcap world Wilson now inhabited.

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It left him lacking grip at the restart to those around him and a madcap, almost unbelievable, series of incidents.

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Two own goals reflected the flawed, madcap nature of this final.

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Off the back of his channel, Lee became a TV presenter with CBBC, starring on screen alongside madcap puppet Hacker T Dog.

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When Kidman gets to play with Nancy and press into her idiosyncrasies like she’s done in other madcap roles, “Holland” briefly comes alive.

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