madding

See also: Madding

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmædɪŋ/
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Rhymes: -ædɪŋ

Adjective

madding

(archaic) Affected with madness; raging; furious.
- 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, OCLC 519198867:
  
  Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
  The madding wheels of brazen chariots raged.

Verb

madding

present participle of mad

Danish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /madenɡ/, [ˈmaðeŋ]

Noun

madding c (singular definite maddingen, plural indefinite maddinger)

fishbait

Inflection

Declension of madding

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	madding	maddingen	maddinger	maddingerne
genitive	maddings	maddingens	maddingers	maddingernes

Synonyms

agn

Further reading

madding on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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