madwoman
English
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Noun
[edit]madwoman (plural madwomen)
- A woman who is insane or mentally disturbed.
- 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
- but there seemed to be no reality in the whole scene except poor little Miss Flite, the madwoman, standing on a bench and nodding at it.
- 1983, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVIII, in The Citadel of the Autarch (The Book of the New Sun; 4), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 232:
- A madwoman with cropped hair and staring eyes stumbled into the column just ahead of our party, shouted words no one could understand, and fled among the trees.
Translations
[edit]a woman who is insane
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meyth₂-
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