单词 | horn-mad |
释义 | horn-madadj. archaic. a. Apparently originally of horned beasts: Enraged so as to be ready to horn any one. Hence of persons: Stark mad; mad with rage; furious. Cf. earlier horn-wood adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by nature > [adjective] > wild or vicious wildc725 wrothOE keenOE ramagec1300 fell?c1335 furiousc1374 fierce1377 ramageousa1398 eagerc1405 savage1447 naughtyc1460 criminal1477 ill1480 shrewd1509 mankind1519 roidc1540 mad1565 horn-mad1579 fierceful1607 man-keen1607 indomite1617 fellish1638 ferocious1646 ferousa1652 ferinea1676 kwaai1827 skelm1827 the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry grim971 aweddeOE woodlyc1000 anburstc1275 woodc1275 aburstc1300 eagerc1325 brotheful1330 brothely1330 furiousc1374 wroth as (the) wind1377 throc1380 fella1382 wrothlya1400 grindelc1400 raginga1425 furibund1490 bremit1535 outraging1567 fulminant?1578 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 snuff1582 woodful1582 maddeda1586 rageful1585 furibundal1593 gary1609 fierce1611 wild1653 infuriate1667 hopping mad1675 maddened1735 sulphureous1751 savage1789 infuriated1796 bouncing mad1834 frenzy1859 furyinga1861 ropeable1870 furied1878 fulminous1886 livid1888 fit to be tied1894 hopping1894 fighting mad1896 tamping mad1946 up the wall1951 ravers1967 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > frenzied or raging aweddeOE woodc1000 woodlyc1000 wildc1300 franticc1390 ramage1440 welling woodc1440 staringc1449 rammistc1455 rabious1460 horn-wood?a1500 rammisha1500 enragea1522 frenzic1547 wood-like1578 horn-mad1579 woodful1582 frenzicala1586 ragefula1586 rabid1594 ravening1599 ravenous1607 Pythic1640 exorbitant1668 frenziful1726 haggard-wild1786 frenzied1796 maenadic1830 berserk1867 up the wall1951 ballistic1981 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 57/2 With it must we fight against these hornemad beastes. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. Ev A Bulls..bellowing, and running horne mad at euery one in his way. 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse 47 We must not..drinke our selues horne madde. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 96 The perillous and transpeircing stinging of these horne-mad Hornets. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love v. i. 85 She's mad for a Husband, and he's Horn-mad, I think, or they'd ne'er make a Match together. a1770 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 157 They run horn mad to go to law. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxii. 265 Miss Grant..would be driven fair horn-mad if she could hear of it. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry > at being cuckolded horn-wood?a1500 horn-mada1616 horn-madded1661 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous > dishonoured by wife's adultery forked1586 cornuted1612 horn-mada1616 bugle-broweda1632 horneda1632 horn-beaten1652 hornified1693 grafted1699 a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. i. 56 E. Dro. Why Mistresse, sure my Master is horne mad. Adri. Horne mad, thou villaine? E. Dro. I meane not Cuckold mad, But sure he is starke mad. View more context for this quotation 1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 51 A loose wife makes her husband horn-mad and heart-sad. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Horn-mad, stark staring Mad because Cuckolded. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. ii. 48 The man is mad, horn mad, to boot. c. Lecherous. Cf. horn n. 5c. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > sexually excited proud1590 primea1616 horny1889 horn-mad1893 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > lasciviousness or lust > [adjective] > lecherous lecherous1303 lickerous1377 cocky1549 cockish?1555 lickering1578 codding1594 salt1598 lickerish1599 rewish1617 tentiginous1631 liquorsome1656 salacious1661 lechering1693 horny1889 horn-mad1893 tomcat1899 whorehopping1954 1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 356 Horn-mad,..sexually excited; lecherous. 1937 in E. Partridge Dict. Slang 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse xvii. 251 The evil-minded and horn-mad levantine. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [adjective] > furiously angry > at being cuckolded horn-wood?a1500 horn-mada1616 horn-madded1661 1661 M. Nedham Short Hist. Eng. Rebell. in Harl. Misc. (Park) II. 523 The Houses know not what to think; The Cits horn~madded be. horn-ˈmadness n. horn-mad condition. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] > at being cuckolded horn-madness1868 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. ii. 118 Somebody courts your wife, Count? Where and when? How and why? Mere horn-madness: have a care! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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