mad hatter

English

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.

Noun

mad hatter (plural mad hatters)

  1. A lunatic; a highly eccentric person.

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