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'^ ; and in form geit Cld. (Jam.) 1. adj. Mad, out of one's senses ; gen. used advb. in phr. to have {be) gone gyte, to have gone mad, to have lost one's senses.
Joseph Wright, English Dialect Dictionary (1898–1905)
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