"madling" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1881, Benjamin Preston, Dialect and other poems, with glossary of the local words:",
          "text": "A madling acts in opposition to common sense. He is an owd madling whose reason has become childish by the lapse of years.",
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          "ref": "2006, Jacqueline Carey, Godslayer: Volume II of The Sundering:",
          "text": "A madling was speaking to them; a woman. Dani stopped with a mind to retreat.",
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          "ref": "2010, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Songs of the Dying Earth:",
          "text": "The madling—he had appeared today in the form of Austeri-Pranz, one of Vespanus' instructors at Roë, an intimidating man with bulging, rolling eyes and a formidable overbite—gave the question his consideration.",
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        "A mad creature; one who acts wildly or foolishly."
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  "etymology_text": "Either from attributive use of madling (see above), or for maddling, present participle of maddle (“to be mad”). More at maddle.",
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          "text": "To be madling is to have our ideas confused.",
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          "text": "The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect.",
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          "text": "She blinked her painful eyes. “Oh,” she said, “the madling boy. . . . But how would I know this? Why do you trouble me with this? […]",
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        "Mad; insane; crazy."
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        "(dialect, chiefly archaic) Mad; insane; crazy."
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          "text": "The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect.",
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