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madwoman

[ mad-woo m-uh n ]

/ ˈmædˌwʊm ən /

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noun, plural mad·wom·en.

a woman who is or behaves as if insane.

Origin of madwoman

1400–50; late Middle English. See mad, woman

Words nearby madwoman

madurai, madurella, madurese, maduro, maduromycosis, madwoman, madwoman of chaillot, the, madwort, madzoon, mae, mae west

Example sentences from the Web for madwoman

Remember when “the madwoman in the attic” was more than just a metaphor for the female imagination?

Six Fictional Marriages that Have Gone Very, Very Wrong |Jean Hanff Korelitz |March 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Remember when it signified an actual ... “madwoman”, in an actual ... “attic”?

Six Fictional Marriages that Have Gone Very, Very Wrong |Jean Hanff Korelitz |March 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But why do voters in the sixth district of Minnesota want to be represented by a madwoman?

The GOP's Worst Medicine |Eric Alterman |April 30, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
I strode up and down the room, and felt inclined to send her away by force as a madwoman.

The Memoires of Casanova, Complete |Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

These were evidently the men on horseback whom the madwoman had seen.

The Tremendous Event |Maurice Leblanc
I loved him, I have loved him distractedly, like a madwoman, for the last six months.'

Original Short Stories, Volume 11 (of 13) |Guy de Maupassant
He had used the word to arrest her attention, which was wandering almost as the attention of a madwoman wanders.

The Woman With The Fan |Robert Hichens
Pepys condemns Nell Gwynn as unbearable in serious parts, but considers her beyond imitation as a madwoman.

Haunted London |Walter Thornbury

British Dictionary definitions for madwoman

madwoman

/ (ˈmædwʊmən) /

noun plural -women

a woman who is insane, esp one who behaves violently; lunatic