madcap

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adj crazy, impulsive

noun. person who takes risks

noun. thrill-seeker

1580s, noun and adjective, from mad (adj.) + cap, used here figuratively for "head." Related: Madcappery.

Come down to breakfast, madcap, and come down lightly, or you'll wake your mother.

For once the madcap girl got the better of the practised courtier.

There was certainly no plan too madcap for Peachy to undertake.

We should have thought at once the prank that madcap would be at!

She wants instead a fortune‑teller, a madcap like Ydo Carrothers.

"It is to that madcap resolution I object," said the captain emphatically.

Not a word all the while of her whom madame had sworn should pay for her madcap freak of to-day.

It is merely one of their madcap tricks, but extremely annoying.

Almost she blushed to recall her madcap feats of only a year ago.

I am not likely to forget my folly in venturing out with a madcap like you!