Adjective: madling
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more madling |
| Superlative | most madling |
Sample Sentences
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To be madling is to have our ideas confused. [1881, Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words:]
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The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect. [2006, Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering:]
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She blinked her painful eyes. “Oh,” she said, “the madling boy. . . . But how would I know this? Why do you trouble me with this? […] [2014, Richard Monaco, Parsival:]
Adjectives inflected like madling
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Either from attributive use of madling (see above), or for maddling, present participle of maddle (“to be mad”). More at maddle.