Madling

A madling acts in opposition to common sense. He is an owd madling whose reason has become childish by the lapse of years.

A madling was speaking to them; a woman. Dani stopped with a mind to retreat.

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.

To be madling is to have our ideas confused.

The madling woman snatched the tray from his hands, giving it to the Fjeltroll to inspect.

She blinked her painful eyes. “Oh,” she said, “the madling boy. . . . But how would I know this? Why do you trouble me with this? […]