Meanings
adjectivemad for it (comparative more mad for it, superlative most mad for it)
comparative more mad for it · superlative most mad for it · alternative madferit
- IrelandUKinformalExceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something.
Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day.[…]I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.
1883 January 6, Nugent Robinson, Ave Maria - Volume 9 - Father Tom: A Story of Connemara, page 3
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