madcap

Meanings

Adjective

Hasty, impulsive, or reckless; capricious.

Noun

An impulsive, hasty, capricious person.
An insane person, a lunatic.

Origin

1580s, mad + cap, with cap figuratively used for "head" here. Original literal sense "lunatic, crazy person", now used figuratively.

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