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ˈmadwoman
[f. mad a. + woman, after madman.]
An insane woman.
1622T. Scott Belg. Pismire 15, I remember a witty mad⁓woman..told a friend of hers [etc.]. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes iii, The rest of the madwomen seemed to understand the joke perfectly. 1844Marg. Fuller Wom. in 19th C. (1862) 105 She..will not be pitied as a mad-woman, nor shrunk from as unnatural. |