- madding (adj.)
- present participle adjective from obsolete verb mad "to make insane; to become insane" (see madden); now principally in the phrase far from the madding crowd, title of a novel by Hardy (1874), who lifted it from a line of Gray's "Elegy" (1749), which seems to echo a line from Drummond of Hawthornden from 1614 ("Farre from the madding Worldling's hoarse discords").
- padding (n.)
- "material used in stuffing," 1828, verbal noun from pad (v.2).
- wadding (n.)
- "stuffing," 1620s, verbal noun from wad (v.).