mad for it

English

Adjective

mad for it (comparative more mad for it, superlative most mad for it)

  1. (UK, Ireland, informal) Exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something.
    • 1883 January 6, Nugent Robinson, Ave Maria - Volume 9 - Father Tom: A Story of Connemara, page 3:
      Glenereegan is to be sold to the highest bidder to-day. […] I'm tould - It's Pether Byrne that dhrives Bianconi's car that tould me - that a smalpeen of a Dublin attorney is mad for it.

Usage notes

Particularly associated with the Madchester era.

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