Angry. Now provincial in England, but much used in America. Examples in Garrick, Marryat, Trollope, &c. (N.E.D.)
1847. There’s no use your getting mad, you’ve got to stop here.—Sol. Smith, ‘Adventures,’ p. 58.
1854. Mrs. Jarvis looked half glad and half ‘mad,’ and entirely ashamed.—Knick. Mag., xliii. 639 (June).
1908. The thing that made me maddest was Silas Petty a-leanin’ back in his pew and smilin’ as satisfied as if he’d seen the salvation of the Lord.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 48.
