1594. Look About You [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), vii. 420]. But pray have a care of this madcap.
1595. Shakspeare, Two Gentl. of Verona, ii. 5, 8. Come on, you mad-*cap, I'll to the ale-house.
1597-8. Haughton, A Woman will have her Will [Dodsley, Old Plays (1874), x. 498]. You madman, mad-cap, wild-oats.
1609. Fletcher, Wild-Goose Chase, iv. 1. If any of the mad-cap gentlemen should come by, That take up women on special warrant, you were in a wise case now.
1639. Glapthorne, Wit in a Constable [Pearson (1874), i. 199]. Pray be you Sir Timothy, know his entrance: 'Tis such another mad-cap.
1658. Wit Restored [Hotten], 147. Two madcaps were committed late, For treason, as some say.
1678. Cotton, Virgil Travestie, in Wks. (1725), Bk. iv. p. 95. Her grace finds me amongst a Crew Of mad-caps.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v.
d. 1796. Burns, To R.G. of F., 8. Not so the idle Muses' mad-cap train.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Mad-cap a frisky, wild lass, full of fun.
1831. Lytton, Eugene Aram, Bk. 4, ch. xi. I could not a-think what could make so shy an' resarved a gentleman as Mr. Aram admit these 'ere wild mad-caps at that hour.
Mad-dog, subs. (Old Cant).—Strong
ale. For synonyms see Drinks
and Swipes.
1586. Harrison, England, 202. There is such headie ale. . . . Commonly called huffe-cappe, the mad dog, father-whore-sonne, angel's-food, dragon's-milk, go-by-the-wall, stride-wide, and lift-leg.
Made. See Make, verb. sense 1.
Made-beer, subs. (Winchester College).—College
swipes bottled
with rice, a few raisins, sugar, and
nutmeg to make it 'up'.—Mansfield.
Madge, subs. (American thieves').—1.
See quot. 1882.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
1882. McCabe, New York, xxxiv. 510 (in list of slang terms). Madge, private places.
2. (venery).—See quots. For synonyms see Monosyllable. Also Madge-howlet.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Madge. The private parts of a woman.
1850. Halliwell, Archaic and Provincial Words, s.v. Madge (3). The pudendum muliebre. South.
3. (Scots').—A woman: partly in sport, and partly in contempt.—Jamieson.
Madge-cull, subs. (Old Cant).—See
quot. Cf. Mary-Ann.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Madge culls, sodomites (Cant).
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
Mad-pash, subs. (provincial).—See
quot.
1850. Halliwell, Archaic & Provincial Words, s.v. Mad-pash. A mad fellow.
Mad-Tom, subs. phr. (old).—See
quots.: a Tom of Bedlam (q.v.).
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v. Mad Tom . . . a rogue that counterfeits madness.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mad Tom. A fellow who feigns to be foolish.
Mad-woman, subs, (old coaching).—An
empty coach.
Madza, adj. (theatrical).—Half.
Madza-caroon = half a crown;
madza-saltee = a halfpenny.
[It. mezza]. Medza-beargered
= half-drunk.
1893. Emerson, Signor Lippo, xiv. They come at madza nova butchers to inspect and see all is bona.
