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(of a person) mentally ill; very silly From the Mad Hatter, a character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Because of the chemicals used in hat-making, workers often suffered from mercury poisoning, which can cause loss of memory and damage to the nervous system. A March hare was called mad because of the strange behavior of hares during the mating season.
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