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mad hatter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables
mad hat-ter
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A lunatic; a highly eccentric person.

Etymology

The term is attested since at least the 1790s, and a Mad Hatter character appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. See mad as a hatter.

Inflected Forms

mad hatters (plural)

Phrases

March hare

Frequently Paired Words

March hare

Questions

What does mad hatter mean?
A lunatic; a highly eccentric person.
Where does mad hatter come from?
The term is attested since at least the 1790s, and a Mad Hatter character appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. See mad as a hatter.

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